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From: flitter@atisun.dt.navy.mil (Lance Flitter)
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Subject: Hooking up serial printers to SPARC IPC (How to)
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   I have a new SPARCstation IPC and I want to hook a serial postscript
printer to it to be used as a network printer.
   I'm familiar with printcap but I've never attached anything to a serial
port on a workstation.  I've been looking through some manuals, trying to
figure out what I have to do to make it work but, so far, I haven't
succeeded.
   I have created a printcap entry for the printer with lp=ttya (the
printer is attached to serial port A).  I'm not sure what else I have to
do to make it work.  I know that there shouldn't be a getty running o that
port and, there isn't.  I also know there are some parameters in the eeprom
but, I'm not sure what needs to be changed, if anything?
   Is there anyone out there who has hooked printers up to a SPARCstaion?
If so, I'd apprecaite some help.   Thanks,

   Lance Flitter

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