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From: Adam Carheden
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 00:00

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Did you guys know that you're 100 times better that Micro$oft Support
could ever hope to be.  I guess that doesn't say much, but you're all
still really good.  I'm just trying to point out that not only is Linux
free, but the tech support is also both free and reliable!

Now my problem -- Printing.  An lp device is installed on /dev/lp1 and I
can print just fine (well, stairstep, but that's another problem) by cat
file > /dev/lp1.  I've set up /etc/printcap as directed by
Printing-HOWTO, but the command lpr file give me the following error:

connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection refused
job 'cfA314Atlantas' transfer to lj@localhost failed

lpd -V says I'm using Version LPRng-3.4.2.  I though LPRng was a totally
different print spooler?

Anyway, here's my printcap entry:

# Local HP LaserJet 6L
lj|printer|default|hp|laserjet|HPLJ6L:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj6l:\
	:mx#0:\
	:lp=/dev/lp1:\
	:if=/var/spool/lpd/hplj6l/nostairs:\
	:sh:

nostairs is the perl script filter from the HOWTO to remove the
stairstep problem. 

The error sounds more like a networking problem to me, which I am even
more clueless on how to fix.  Please help.

TIA

-- 
Adam Carheden
carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU
http://holly.ColoState.EDU/~carheden

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