printing for first time

[Thomas Stivers]

On 09/10/03  7:11 PM -0400, Danny Crone wrote:
> I am running red hat 8, and am using tbrl.  I tried to send a file to my 
> blazer by typing
> cp stuff.brl /dev/lp0

You may want to try
cat stuff.brl >/dev/lp0
If this doesn't work you need to make sure your user has write access to
/dev/lp0. This may mean adding yourself to a parallel group or lp group
or something.

> Maybe I need to tell my system I have something on lp0.  How do I do that?

For something like the blazer which doesn't have any drivers to speak of
you should just be able to redirect output through the parallel port
assuming the settings on your blazer are correct.

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