SVR4.0 V2.0 -- lp(7) not configured as documented.

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4 total messages Started by Robert Withrow Sun, 21 Apr 1991 02:43

#386

Author: Robert Withrow
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 02:43

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This is specifically for Intel SVR4.0 V2.0.

The documentation for lp(7) states that the /dev/lp(x) port operates
as documented in termio(7).  This is a *fib*, however, since no one
got around to telling the autopush(1) utility to push the terminal
line discipline module onto this device.  If you want the lp(7) driver
to operate as documented you want to add a line like this to your
/etc/ap/chan.ap file:

# major minor   lastminor       modules
    7     -1       0            ldterm ttcompat

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Re: SVR4.0 V2.0 -- lp(7) not configured as documented.

#387

Author: Guy Harris
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 17:33

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>If you want the lp(7) driver to operate as documented you want to add
>a line like this to your /etc/ap/chan.ap file:

You can probably leave "ttcompat" off, unless you want to be able to
perform V7/BSD-style "ioctl()"s on "/dev/lp"....

Re: SVR4.0 V2.0 -- lp(7) not configured as documented.

#388

Author: Robert Withrow
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 13:42

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In article <7318@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
|You can probably leave "ttcompat" off, unless you want to be able to
|perform V7/BSD-style "ioctl()"s on "/dev/lp"....

I agree.  The reason why I included it is because AT&T included it for
the ASY(7) driver, the man page for which reads just like the one for
LP(7). 


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SVR4.0 PostScript Printer Problem

#389

Author: Paul Breslaw
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 20:57

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I'm running SysVR4 on Intel 486 workstations.

We have some remote SunOS/Ultrix PostScript printers which I need
to configure into the spooling system.

I followed the instructions in the Advanced System Management Guide
and configured one logical printer as

    lpadmin -p ps1 -s remote!ps -T PS -I PS

and another as

    lpadmin -p ps2 -s remote!ps -I PS,troff,simple

and another as

    lpadmin -p ps3 -s remote!ps 

Now I want to print a manual page, I guess by

    troff -man mpage.1 | lp -d printer -T troff

If printer is ps1 or ps3 I'm told nothing but it doesn't print.
If printer is ps2 I'm told there is no filter.

If I rip out the troff->postscript filter dpost and run

    troff -man mpage.1 | dpost | lp -d printer

with ps1 or ps3 everything works fine. I forget what happened if
printer is ps2.

Is a remote PostScript printer a PostScript printer type or an unknown
printer type, or something else.

Any suggestions?

Paul Breslaw (paul@hasler.ascom.ch)

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