Dear Gurus,
1) First question: how to prevent my lasercolor, hooked to the parallel
port of my alpha box, to be the "default" printer?
Answer: this printer should NOT be called "lp" or "lp0" in
/etc/printcap.
A printer called "lp" will be the default, unless you have
defined a PRINTER environment variable.
It is said also that the FIRST printer in /etc/printcap is
considered as the default. This is true: before I
installed the lasercolor as "lp", I received from time to
time some garbage on "my" printer which is the first one in
printcap.
2) Second question: what about the JetDirect card?
Answer: no problem.
Kimble Webb suggested that I should have a look at LPRng, here is
his answer:
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you could look at lprng for an access list etc - or to print to the hp
jetdirect - it nice
The software may be obtained from
ftp://dickory.sdsu.edu/pub/LPRng (Main site)
ftp://ftp.iona.ie/pub/plp/LPRng
ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/plp/LPRng
ftp://gwynne.cs.ualberta.ca/pub/LPRng
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/os/unix/utils/plp/LPRng
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/unix/printer/plp/LPRng
ftp://ftp.beckman.uiuc.edu/pub/plp/LPRng
ftp://ftp.zod.wau.nl/pub/mirror/plp/LPRng
ftp://ftp.lps.ens.fr/pub/software/plp/LPRng
To join the LPRng/PLP mailing list, please send mail to
plp-request_at_iona.ie
with the word 'subscribe' in the BODY
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My deeper thanks to:
Sheila Hollenbaugh <shollen_at_valhalla.cs.wright.edu>
Brian Sheehan <sheehan_at_scripps.edu>
Martin Moore <martin_at_decatl.alf.dec.com>
David Warren <warren_at_atmos.washington.edu>
Hans Kowallik <hans_at_physics.orst.edu>
munhoven_at_olive.msm.ulg.ac.be (Serge Munhoven)
Kimble Britten Webb <kimble_at_maths.unsw.EDU.AU>
WHITTAKER, Bruce <bjw_at_ansto.gov.au>
Jean-Loup
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Received on Wed Nov 27 1996 - 11:17:56 NZDT