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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Remote printer queues using lprbe
Message-ID: <1990Jan20.182231.19614@acheron.uucp>
Date: 20 Jan 90 18:22:31 GMT
References: <1283@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Ciliophora Associates
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From article <1283@husc6.harvard.edu>, by kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar):
>   However, when I try to do it with a printer queue, the job vanishes
> into thin air. The manual waves its hands and says that lprbe will
> be invoked by the qdaemon but I've never seen this happen. I tried

You seem to have a bunch of strangenesses in there.  Here's one that works
for me:

rjt:
   argname = -rjt
   device = rjtdev

rjtdev:
   header = never
   trailer = never
   feed = never
   backend = /usr/bin/lprbe -pserver=labauto -pqueue=lpt1

Note that the argname has to have "-rjt" not just "rjt".  Otherwise you
have to say "print rjt" instead of "print -rjt".  Don't forget to su and
do a "print -rr" to activate the qconfig changes.

The machine that I'm remote printing on is called "labauto" and until 
yesterday it had an HP LaserJet on it.  Today it has an IBM 4216-031 
postscript printer.  Both work quite well with EROFF (Elan computer 
products).
-- 
Ed Clarke
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