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From: AR.BXA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Bob Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: using an old paper-wacker
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Date: 2 Aug 90 18:49:12 GMT
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NOVICE QUESTION:  (Help?!)

SYSTEM:
9000 835S
hp-ux 3.1 (soon to be 7.0, i hope!)
tape: 2680A
lp0: 2564B
staff: learning gobs, but many gobs to go!

THE PROBLEM:
would very much like to use a 2608A we salvaged from an old
3000 (MPE, whatever that is?) as /dev/lp1.
want to daisy chain it from hpib connecting the 2564B (board
also has 2680 on it.  no printer model like this in
usr/spool/lp/model.. what should we use?  we tried 2564B but
that errored "can't open /dev/lp1..  error timed out and
scheduler disabled lp1".
physical address is 4.2.5 if it matters.


so far, HP is giving us the line that "it is no longer
supported.."  we know that. what's the point of all this
lower case stuff if you can't do what you want to do???

any help would be earnestly appreciated!

thanx..
bob anderson
stanford
ar.bxa@stanford.edu