Are you sure this is a serial printer?


Chuck


On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Joshua E Hope wrote:

> 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
> > 
> 
>