[comp.os.minix] How to print a file to IW II in MacMinix ?

mings@dogmatix.cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So) (03/08/91)

Hello Netters,
	please forgive me if this question has been asked before.  I have
just gotten my copy of MacMinix for my Mac Plus.  I have successfully
installed the whole system on my harddisk and everything seems fine so far,
except that I cannot print any file in Minix to my Imagewriter II.  My IW
is connected to the printer port of my Mac+ (not AppleTalk linked), and I
can print from any other applications successfully except Minix.  I have
try to use the command "lpr" to print a file (Minix file, not Mac file),
but nothing happens (no printout and nothing report on the console, just
exit as successful).  Then I try to redirect the stdout to /dev/tty3 (i.e.
cat <file> > /dev/tty3), but I only get a single line of garbage characters.
I have check the chooser and sure it's correctly connected the IW driver
with the printer port (and as I've said before, I can print in other
applications).  So I just don't know how to do with this situation.

	So could anybody please help me to solve this problem ?  I know I
can export a Minix file as a Mac TEXT file and use a text editor to print
it, but this is just too inconvenient, and I believe there must be some
method to print in MacMinix.

	Thanks for any response !




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