Follow up on: how to set up printer without x window

Follow up on: how to set up printer without x window

[linux-prompt prompt]

Thanks to all for replying, but:

The printing howto mainly focuses on the use of printtool (which
implies using "xwindow"). Unfortunately, I did not find any doc on the 
internet
about setting up a printer  without a GUI on Linux.


>From: "linux-prompt prompt" <linuxprompt@hotmail.com>
>To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: how to set up printer without x window
>Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 02:59:33 +0000
>
>Hi,
>I have a Canon BJC 80 printer that I connected to my parralel printer port 
>lp0.
>I had recompiled my kernel for parrallel printing support, but do not know
>what to do next. I have redhad 4.2 (kernel 2.0.30) with no x window (just
>plain command prompt).
>
>Thanks for helping
>
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Re: Follow up on: how to set up printer without x window

[Jeff Largent]

man printcap
vi /etc/printcap

no X needed

linux-prompt prompt wrote:
> Thanks to all for replying, but:
> 
> The printing howto mainly focuses on the use of printtool (which
> implies using "xwindow"). Unfortunately, I did not find any doc on the 
> internet
> about setting up a printer  without a GUI on Linux.
> 
> 
>> From: "linux-prompt prompt" <linuxprompt@hotmail.com>
>> To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: how to set up printer without x window
>> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 02:59:33 +0000
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have a Canon BJC 80 printer that I connected to my parralel printer 
>> port lp0.
>> I had recompiled my kernel for parrallel printing support, but do not 
>> know
>> what to do next. I have redhad 4.2 (kernel 2.0.30) with no x window (just
>> plain command prompt).
>>
>> Thanks for helping
>>
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Re: Follow up on: how to set up printer without x window

[Joakim Ryden]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:34, linux-prompt prompt wrote:
> Thanks to all for replying, but:
> 
> The printing howto mainly focuses on the use of printtool (which
> implies using "xwindow"). Unfortunately, I did not find any doc on the 
> internet
> about setting up a printer  without a GUI on Linux.

This is kind of distribution specific. Or at least printing subsystem
specific. If you are using a recent version of Red Hat you can use
'redhat-config-printer-tui' to configure your printer without X.

--Jo