From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 20 01:44:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA11167 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:44:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA11161 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:44:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01118 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:45:31 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:45:31 -0900 (AKST) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: printing locally from server Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ummm - hope this is ok to post ;) i think this is a FBSD question since it relates to terminal settings. i would like to print to a local printer while connected with a terminal program to a FBSD server. with PINE, i do this by just saying "lp=". i'd like to do it with other programs (pico etc.) but specifically with lynx 2.8 (FBSD 2.2.7). the lynx.cfg say to use some "lpansi" termcap thing, but FBSD doesn't have that. after experimenting a while, i still can't find anything that makes this situation work out. any suggestions? any tricks to make this work globally for all programs, ie, redirect printer output to a local printer from a terminal via lp? mucho thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message