bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) (10/29/89)
I have a 3B2/310 with a plain vanilla ports card and am trying to get the parallel port (tty15) working. I have installed the lp software and ported known-to-work filters for the Okidata 2350 and HP Laser Jet II, also my cables are known-to-work with the printers and other systems. When I lp something it appears in the lpstat report as printing but nothing prints. I finally get a "terminated" message on the printer when I cancel the job. I have changed permissions on /dev/tty15 to 666 and it is owned by lp and group bin; /usr/bin/lp is setuid and setgid to lp and bin. I am able to cat a file though a filter to /dev/tty15 but the process hangs somewhere around the end of the file and I have to DEL out. If I send a \f\r\c to the printer after breaking out of the cat, I seem to get everything printed. Finally, I am using Vr3.1, the one without the /etc/shadow password file. Another fellow in Dallas is having similar problems with Vr3.2, any ideas? -- Bill Kennedy usenet {attctc,att,cs.utexas.edu,sun!daver}!ssbn!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM or attmail!ssbn!bill