Re: Printing under Redhat 4.2

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From: David Gibson
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 00:00

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Forge Villella (forgev@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:

: Hi all,

: I've been having a problem with printing under Linux.  I've Followed all the 
: steps outlined in the RedHat Linux User guide and I'm still having trouble.

: The error I'm getting is:

: [root@localhost forge]# cat /hello.adb | /dev/lp1
: bash: /dev/lp1: Permission denied

Um.. try:
	cat /hello.adb > /dev/lp1

The pipe (|) symbol is for sending data to another process (program).
You want the redirection symbol (>) which sends data to a file or device.
The Permission denied is becuase it's trying to run /dev/lp1 as a program -
which doesn't make sense.

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