kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) (03/30/91)
In <1010@hico2.UUCP>, I write >For some reason, when I press SHIFT-print >(print key and shift at the same time) >I get a message box saying that my print job is being queued, >but nothing happens. After trying various suggestions, I've narrowed the problem to something with lp. lp -dIBMProprinter [file] succeeds lp -dIBMProprinter_R [file] fails with no error message lp -dIBMProprinter_R < [file] fails with no error message lp -dfoo fails with no error message enabling IBMProprinter_R while su'd to lp has no effect. Pecularities: I have a different printer "device" also using /dev/rawlp. I see this as two problems: 1. lp does not produce any error warnings. 2. the _R convention doesn't seem to work on my system. Output from lpstat -t: scheduler is running system default destination: IBMProprinter members of class Parallel: Special IBMProprinter device for IBMProprinter: /dev/lp device for Special: /dev/rawlp Parallel accepting requests since Sep 20 00:04 Special accepting requests since Aug 12 23:52 IBMProprinter accepting requests since Aug 12 23:58 printer Special is idle. enabled since Nov 1 15:26 printer IBMProprinter is idle. enabled since Feb 5 10:45 c-w--w--w- 1 root sys 6, 0 Mar 29 10:49 /dev/lp c-w--w--w- 1 root sys 6, 32 Mar 29 11:30 /dev/rawlp -rwsr-sr-x 1 lp bin 14192 Jan 1 1970 /usr/bin/lp -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 9764 Jan 1 1970 /usr/bin/sprint Output from coffdate: Sat Apr 18 15:46:39 1987 /usr/bin/lp Sat Apr 18 17:28:51 1987 /usr/bin/sprint I can't see anything obviously wrong, and I don't know enough about how lp works on the 3b1 to make a guess at what to try next. The only thing I can think of is that the existance of "Special" is interferring with printing to "IBMProprinter_R". Anybody have any ideas on what is going on here? Kris A. Kugel ( 908 ) 842-2707 uunet!tsdiag.ccur.com!hico2!kak (maybe) {daver,ditka,zorch}!hico2!kak internet: kak@hico2.westmark.com