On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

Well you could install the cupsys printer system (much much better than lpr/lpd) and the approrpaite cupsomatic/foomatic packages to get http://localhost:631 working and see if using the web interface it works then. It has a pretty good list of printers and ports to choose from.

Assuming the cable is right, that should do something. Well hopefully.

Thanks for the tip. See my post to Peter earlier today. I prefer to get into the stuff I know, albeit poorly. I think the concept of web interface is good, but it requires httpd to work and adds another level of indirection. This is fine if you want/like a m$-type interface, but not if you want to get under the hood. Why replicate m$ behaviour? When you get down to it, IMHO, "cat" is the way to go. lpd is second best (1 level of indirection). cupsys is third (multiple levels of indirection; httpd required). (Yes, I know that if you extend my logic, I'd be talking to the printer in hex.) Is cupsys an interface to /etc/printcap? The cable works all right. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml