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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 10:09:40 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Don Morrison <dmorrisn@u.washington.edu>, BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: perm denied on lpt0?????
Message-ID:  <19980518100940.H427@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <355F4E0F.1FF3920F@u.washington.edu>; from Don Morrison on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 01:52:31PM -0700
References:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980517115119.7109A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> <355F4E0F.1FF3920F@u.washington.edu>

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On Sun, 17 May 1998 at 13:52:31 -0700, Don Morrison wrote:
>> I got a &*(^% of a problem. I don't understand why my lpt0 port is giving
>> me permission denied...  One moment I got it, and I'm setting up my
>> printer ( ... filters, 'know how much fun it is...), the second later,
>> cat myfile | /dev/lpt0
>              ^
> ------------/
> Use the > not the pipe.  Alse make sure you are su'd to root.

Better still, use lpr:

$ lpr myfile

Greg
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