Thanks a lot. Now...any idea why my printer responds not at all when I try
an lpr command?

None of the lights change, it just sits there. For those of you who missed
my last message: It seems to be a standard dot matrix printer, an Epson
ActiveWriter 1000. It's a PC printer, and I have the cord in the back of
it routed through a gender changer to a normal DB-29 to Mac DB-9 cable,
plugged into my printer port. I fixed /etc/printcap to uncomment the local
line printer lines (the first entry in there, I believe).

Are there numbers in printcap I must screw around with to get it to
respond or should it respond anyway?

Josh Hope
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, SUNAGAWA Keiki wrote:

> Joshua E Hope <otaku@unixgeek.ml.org>  wrote:
> 
> Joshua> Does anyone have any idea why trying to do a "lpc
> Joshua> start all" command gives the following error?
> 
> It seems that you didn't start lpd.  For the moment, you
> just type 'lpd' as root.
> 
> To enable when you reboot the machine next time, check out
> "/etc/rc.conf".  If it has the line lpd=NO, change NO to
> YES.
> 
> BTW, there are useful commands.
> 
> apropos lpc
> man lpc
>