jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) (04/14/89)
If anyone has managed to get the prsvr/prmgr combination to work for a simple dumb printer that uses XON/XOFF flow control, please send me some mail. I've tried to use the sample stuff in /sys/hardcopy and I strongly suspect that it doesn't work. First of all, /sys/ins/prsvr.ins.c has a problem with a missing #endif (I put it at the bottom and hoped that was all that was missing), and after fixing that I find that the C compiler doesn't seem to want to generate ".bin" (I assume that is what the weird parameters on the "cc" command line are for) files, but does generate ".o" files. I tried to do the bind with the .o files instead and it seems to have worked at least somewhat (I got a warning message about something being multiply defined, but not error messages). However, when I tried to use it as the printer driver I got an error that the absolute address was already in use. WHY IN THE WORLD IS IT SO HARD TO MAKE A STUPID PRINTER WORK ON THESE DAMN MACHINES! THIS WOULD TAKE ALL OF TWO MINUTES ON A >>>REAL<<< UNIX MACHINE! Ahem, anyway, let me know if you've managed to get this to work. James Conley Indiana University Computer Science jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (04/14/89)
If you wish to use the *real* Unix line printer support, go ahead ... /usr/lib/lpd , /usr/lib/lpq, /usr/ucb/lpr , etc are all available in the BSD4.3 directories. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)