From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "heisspf@skyinet.net" Subject: Re: Printing with Kernel 2.6.14.4 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:58:58 -0500 Message-ID: <380-22006362515858506@M2W055.mail2web.com> Reply-To: heisspf@skyinet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Thanks Ray, >>Doesn't 'cat filename.txt > /dev/lp0' work > > > no since /dev/lp0 is not an executable file. > Ok my mistake. It does work under su, however, not as sudo which I had tried only. > as I have a hazy recollection that some versions of Slackware associated > lp1, not lp0, with the first parallel port. It is lp0. The reason I can't print not being connected with kernel 2.6.14 is, the way I see it, that there is no provision for a parallel port on "local printer" set-up, but only for "network printer". May be I should try to fumble around the source, /usr/src/linux. Regards Peter -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs