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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Help- '/dev/[raw]lp' cannot create - Help
Keywords: lp, printer, broken, HELLLP
Message-ID: <403@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 01:56:53 GMT
Organization: flatline in Houston(Montrose, really), Tx.
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Well, I broke flatline again....
flatline = 3b1 Unix 3.0, w/67Mb HD, 3.5Mb RAM, DOS-73, etc..

I was trying to change the default printer driver from 'lp' to 'rawlp'.

(There was a recent post explaining that this was a great way to deal
with odd printers.  Switch the default /dev/lp to /dev/rawlp and
let the application take care of text formatting...anyway...)

I did 'lpadmin -pOther -v/dev/rawlp' and then realised I was supposed
to do 'lpshut' first.   So I did an 'lpshut'; did the above 'lpadmin'
command again; then did 'lpsched'.
I keep getting this from the 'lpstat -t'.

        scheduler is running
        system default destination: Other
        members of class Parallel:
	        Other
        device for Other: /dev/lp
        Other accepting requests since Feb 12 19:03
        Parallel accepting requests since Feb 12 19:03
        printer Other disabled since Feb 14 19:28 -
	        disabled by scheduler: can't open /dev/lp
        Other-64            lp               20878   Feb 14 18:58

So does anybody have any suggestions other than turning everything off,
re-installing the system, and starting over from scratch?
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