Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!garcon!mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu!carlson From: carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 0.9 won't print at all Message-ID: <800010@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 24 Jun 89 21:19:00 GMT References: <4112@ima.ima.isc.com> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:ima.ima.isc.com:4112:mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu:800010:000:639 Nf-From: mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu!carlson Jun 24 16:19:00 1989 /* Written 12:41 pm Jun 24, 1989 by johnl@ima.ima.isc.com in mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.next */ >> I use neither YP nor netinfo... >> ... a lot of "cannot start daemon" messages... >> Perhaps nobody tested printing without netinfo turned on. Bingo, you hit right on the head! They say accesses should go to /etc/* files if NetInfo is not running, but as for /etc/printcap, THEY LIE! The only solution I know of is to run NetInfo. True, this entails more of the headache of running NI. -------------------- Brad Carlson or University of Illinos--Micro Resource Center--NeXT guru