ir121@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (Richard T Carson) (06/18/88)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm sending this from a friend's account. Please reply to keynes!shankar@ucsd.edu or shankar@are.berkeley.edu ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Recently, I got an Epson LX800 dot-matrix printer for using with a 3b2/300. I hooked it up with a centronics cable to the parallel port on the 3b2/300. I can't get lp to work. cat file > /dev/tty14 (the tty for the parallel port) doesn't work. stty -a < /dev/tty14 gives a 'cannot open' message. Any idea what's wrong and what I should do next? Not much use asking AT & T. They want $125 an hour just to talk to you on the phone. I'd like to use the printer for nroff. Some time ago, comp.sources.unix had something on using the mx-80, the precursor of the lx800, for nroff. Hope this'll work and that it doesn't need the printer to be configured for a serial port. Any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks shankar subramanian (keynes!shankar@ucsd.edu, shankar@are.berkeley.edu)