Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:50:59 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> Cc: Bradley <bradley@swt.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Epson Stlyus. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911102048400.57658-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991111162310.B718@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz>
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Actually you can print without lpd. You can cat a printer-ready file to the printer port with cat filename > /dev/lpt0 as root. If your printer prints pages of nonsense, go to the spool directory and delete whatever is there that's printing, and start over. Annelise On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > [Please do *NOT* remove the Cc: to freebsd-questions] > > On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:15:01PM -0600, Bradley wrote: > > > Well.. before i started trying to setup my printer. > > I had lpd_enable="yes" but when it was running and my printer was on.. > > it would print pages and pages and pages of nonsense.. so i disabled it.. how do i > > solve that one? > > > > Well, if you don't have lpd running, you can't print anything. > If your printer is printing junk, you have to tell the list just > what sort of junk you're getting so that we can attempt to fix it. > -- > Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. > Twice is coincidence. > Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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