Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bcars363!znha
From: znha@bcars363.bnr.ca (Gord Dey)
Subject: Re: printer startup problems (novice user)
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.063921.292@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Summary: suggest:  lp=/dev/null, not /dev/sio1
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References: <1990Aug31.113948.32825@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 90 06:39:21 GMT

In article <1990Aug31.113948.32825@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, hdtodd@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> 
> lp|line printer:\
>         :pc=/usr/apollo/bin/prf -banner off -text -npag -headers off:lp=/dev/sio1:\
>         :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lp:if=/usr/lib/lpf:\
>         :af=/usr/adm/lpacct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
David:
I think you want PRF to manage the serial port (it will attempt to
do so, normally, in the server code for the printer type), and thus should
set lp=/dev/null instead.

Gord.