[S.u.S.E. Linux] Printing problem
I just installed SuSE 5.2, seemingly without error. Used YaST to config my printer, an HP Deskjet 520 B&W on the parallel port. The lpd is started at boot time. I can produce stairstepped printer output as root using cat filename > /dev/lp1 When I try to print either ASCII or PS via the installed APSfilter, I get the message "getport: Unknown host 'BeagleDog' " BeagleDog is my machine name in /etc/HOSTNAME. Using a new and simplified printcap without the APSfilter gives the same results. What's going on? I didn't think that communication with lpd involved loopback or a hostname at all. I thought YaST was supposed to handle this stuff :-( BTW, SuSE's support has not responded in a week. Is that about par for the course? -- Howard Arons -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
What do you get when you exec "lpr filename"? Still stair-stepped? Howard Arons wrote:
I just installed SuSE 5.2, seemingly without error. Used YaST to config my printer, an HP Deskjet 520 B&W on the parallel port. The lpd is started at boot time. I can produce stairstepped printer output as root using cat filename > /dev/lp1
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 22-May-98 Howard Arons wrote:
I just installed SuSE 5.2, seemingly without error. Used YaST to config my printer, an HP Deskjet 520 B&W on the parallel port. The lpd is started at boot time. I can produce stairstepped printer output as root using cat filename > /dev/lp1 To get *this* to work, you have to set your printer to add <CR> to the <LF> characters.. that's because MSDOS translates "newlines" to <CR><LF> by default but *nix systems only use <LF> and most printers are factory set for MSDOS.
BTW, SuSE's support has not responded in a week. Is that about par for the course? No... there's two or three people from SuSE who (usually, or in the past) would respond daily on this list... 'cept when there's a big show like the Spring Comdex and available personel are out boothing.
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