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- From: afx@muc.ibm.de (Andreas Siegert)
- Subject: Re: Printers and AIX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.094332.24968@muc.ibm.de>
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- Keywords: aix printer
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- Organization: IBM AIX Field Support Center, Munich
- References: <stritzi.727656410@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:43:32 GMT
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- In article <stritzi.727656410@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, stritzi@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peer Stritzinger) writes:
- >I'm trying to use the AIX queue from an lpd client (PC/TCP). The
- >printer is a DeskJet 500 or HP4M, the virtual printer a HPII.
- >
- >Printing from WinWord and other programs, I only get junk on the printer.
- >
- >Is there a device "parallel port" I can send data out unmodified for testing?
- >/dev/lp0 e.g. does NOT do this.
- >
- >How can I stop the printer subsystem corrupting my output?
-
- Peer,
- use splp to set the lp0 device to passthrough. Looks like the passthrough
- entry is ignored when configuring the device. splp will do it right,
- but you have to call it each time you boot the machine.
- And setting -dp on piobe in /etc/qconfig will tell the queue to keep its dirty
- fingers of the printed data.
-
- cheers
- afx
-
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