Dan - Check out the command 'lpr' - just give it a filename and away you go. Caution - you may need to be sure your end-of-line characters are crlf instead of just lf. If you do "lpr filename" and get everything printed on top of itself, do this: "cat filename | todos | lpr". HTH - Chuck On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote: > Hi listers. > I recently connected a printer to my linux box and wanted to see if I > can get it to print. I have looked at the printing-howto and the > printing-usage howto, but I wonder if there's a way to have Linux > check to see if the printer is there? I looked in /dev and I see > /dev/lp0 /dev/lp1 and /dev/lp2, but I don't know what they are for. > I'm running kernel 2.4.5, and when I compiled it I enabled parallel > printer support as well as parallel port support. > In the howto, it mentions /dev/lp, but there isn't one and before I > start tinkering around, I was wondering if anyone has had experience > with this. > thanks. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is New
