--- Graham Smith
Good we know it is connected to /dev/lp0 now and that the port is not functioning properly for some reason.
What printer are you using?
Epson Stylus Color 740. I'm using the model 500 config suggested by SuSE Support site. Works perfectly in win98. Most apps act just like they are printing normally and terminate the print stuff as if it printed normally. Apps that use lpq set the file in lp and lpq says "lp is ready and printing" for a reasonable time and then the file is dropped and "lp ready" returns. No idea of implications of this.
Have you checked to see if you can print from MS-Dos or Windows on this machine to the printer. I suppect that you have a hardware problem. Have you checked the cable?
What is this "cat" by the way?
man cat
NAME cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
SYNOPSIS cat [OPTION] [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
Or put simply it prints a file to the screen unless redirected. Similiar to the 'type' command under DOS.
Regards
Graham Smith ____________________________________
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