Re: tlug: The simplest possible printer puzzle

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:51:26PM +0900, Dennis McMurchy wrote:
>   Hi all,
> 
>   Just back to TLUG after a break of several months.  I will carry
> on boring you all with the never-ending problems and dissatisfactions
> of someone who upgraded (last June) to RedHat 6.0 from an ancient
> (but well-loved) Slackware installation.
> 
>   Here's the latest RH6 glitch I'm banging my head against:
> 
>   Can't dump ordinary basic ASCII files to /dev/lp1 with a command
> like 'cat filename > /dev/lp1' (if there's a more basic way of printing
> I don't know what it is).

Did you try /dev/lp0? The parallel port interface naming convention
changed between 2.0.x and 2.2.x.

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Shimpei Yamashita                   <http://www2.gol.com/users/shimpei/>
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