printing for first time

printing for first time

[Danny Crone]

I am running red hat 8, and am using tbrl.  I tried to send a file to my 
blazer by typing
cp stuff.brl /dev/lp0
Maybe I need to tell my system I have something on lp0.  How do I do that?

Re: printing for first time

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Danny,
Try lpr instead of lp0

Chuck
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Danny Crone wrote:

> I am running red hat 8, and am using tbrl.  I tried to send a file to my
> blazer by typing
> cp stuff.brl /dev/lp0
> Maybe I need to tell my system I have something on lp0.  How do I do that?
>
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Re: printing for first time

[Christopher Moore]

Danny,
You need to use thelpr command to access the printer.  "lpr <filename>".

Chris

Re: printing for first time

[Thomas Stivers]

On 09/10/03  7:11 PM -0400, Danny Crone wrote:
> I am running red hat 8, and am using tbrl.  I tried to send a file to my 
> blazer by typing
> cp stuff.brl /dev/lp0

You may want to try
cat stuff.brl >/dev/lp0
If this doesn't work you need to make sure your user has write access to
/dev/lp0. This may mean adding yourself to a parallel group or lp group
or something.

> Maybe I need to tell my system I have something on lp0.  How do I do that?

For something like the blazer which doesn't have any drivers to speak of
you should just be able to redirect output through the parallel port
assuming the settings on your blazer are correct.

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