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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:13:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      <scanner@jurai.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ARGH! Stupid LPD error...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104171709350.42409-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010417160730.A20235@dan.emsphone.com>

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> Is the printer offline maybe?  Try running "lptcontrol -p" to set the
> printer device to polled mode.  That has helped for me in the past.

GRRR. open-systems# lptcontrol -p
lptcontrol: open: Device busy

Something is holding a lock on that device. That is all I can think of.

open-systems# fstat | grep lpt
open-systems#



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