On 09/10/03 7:11 PM -0400, Danny Crone wrote: > I am running red hat 8, and am using tbrl. I tried to send a file to my > blazer by typing > cp stuff.brl /dev/lp0 You may want to try cat stuff.brl >/dev/lp0 If this doesn't work you need to make sure your user has write access to /dev/lp0. This may mean adding yourself to a parallel group or lp group or something. > Maybe I need to tell my system I have something on lp0. How do I do that? For something like the blazer which doesn't have any drivers to speak of you should just be able to redirect output through the parallel port assuming the settings on your blazer are correct. -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD