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On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 03:25 , Harald Weis wrote:

> Has anybody printed with `Print' or `a2ps' on a network printer?
>
> Fink's a2ps works fine for `a2ps -Pvoid <filename>'.
>
> Can't find why /usr/libexec/lpd does not even read /etc/printcap.
>
> As to `Print', the man page seems to suggest that the command depends 
> on  `lpr' and hence on `lpd', too.
>
> `ping lex' is alright (lex is the name of my network printer), but for 
> both `a2ps' and `Print' lex seems to be an unknown printer.

lpr on OSX requires printer entries to be in netinfo, not as stanzas in 
/etc/printcap.  I'm fuzzy on the details, but there is a howto at 
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20011221103321129

jpb
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