Finding your printer

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Dan -

Check out the command 'lpr' - just give it a filename and away
you go.
Caution - you may need to be sure your end-of-line characters are
crlf instead of just lf. If you do "lpr filename" and get
everything printed on top of itself, do this: "cat filename |
todos | lpr".

HTH - Chuck


On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Hi listers.
> I recently connected a printer to my linux box and wanted to see if I
> can get it to print.  I have looked at the printing-howto and the
> printing-usage howto, but I wonder if there's a way to have Linux
> check to see if the printer is there?  I looked in /dev and I see
> /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2, but I don't know what they are for.
> I'm running kernel 2.4.5, and when I compiled it I enabled parallel
> printer support as well as parallel port support.
> In the howto, it mentions /dev/lp, but there isn't one and before I
> start tinkering around, I was wondering if anyone has had experience
> with this.
> thanks.
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