Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!lib!thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu From: dfenyes@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu (David Fenyes) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Installing a printer. Keywords: clam printer Message-ID: <5065@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 23 May 91 14:35:06 GMT References: <1991May17.051404.8628@cs.umn.edu> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick Quairoli) writes: > has anyone had any problems installing a dot matrix printer with >coherent. i can't seem to cat file >lpt1 or lpr file >the system keeps giving me an error such as 'can not open device' , >or 'permission denied'. any ideas will be appriecated. Are you using the clam shell? I found that I had the same problem with clam (unless I logged in as root). If this is the case, maybe aliasing something like '/bin/sh -c lpr $1' to lpr would help. (I can't remember the clam equiv. of $*) David ------- David Fenyes dfenyes@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu University of Texas Medical School Houston, Texas