Re: TeX printing problem

2001-09-24 Thread Paul Huygen
Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have apsfilter installed. I still get the same results [printer prints postscript code], trying both [ $ lpr quantum.dvi and [ $ dvips -f quantum |lpr ] I would think that, if Ghostscript was broken, the printer would either produce ghostscript

lpr printing problem in sid---temp file error

2001-05-31 Thread Alan Davis
I am getting an error when trying to print in a sid system, with lpr as the print spooler. I get an error under netscape 4.77: temp file write error in an xterm: bash-2.05$ lpr -Plp wordcount lpr: wordcount: temp file write error lpr: wordcount: empty

Printing Problem

2001-01-03 Thread Angel Parra
Hello!! I am usind debian as a printing server. I have an deskject printer, and when I try tu use it from a windows machine, if I want to get a page print as if i have a postscript printer (using Sanba at Linux and a PS driver on windows) I get the page perfectly and an extre rubber

PostScript Printing Problem

2001-01-01 Thread Angel
Hello!! I have a HP DeskJet printer, and of course I habe the magicfilter instaled, so it works perfectly whit Debian. The problen is that I want to share it with some windows PC, I have the Samba instaled. If I export the printer and use the HP driver on the Windos PCs and print

Printing problem... (solution, sort of)

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Schulz
Thanks to all those people who responded to my last 'printing problem' responce. My first decision was to re-install 'lpr' instead of 'lprng' on the server, as lprng wasn't running the fliters on bounced queues. Problems then occured when trying to print from the server with the following

Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Debian User Don Cavaiani
I have just upgraded to potato. My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but now I get the message Waiting for lp to become ready. I don't see anything in dmesg about the printer daemon being started. Did I not configure this properly?

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Debian User Don Cavaiani
Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still doesn't work. Matthew Dalton wrote: Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: I have just upgraded to potato. My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
This may or may not be relevant, but I recently had a lot of similar problems with lpr in woody. I replaced it with lprng and my printing problems disappeared. On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:38:46PM -0600, Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Timmy Douglas
Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still doesn't work. here is what i do: - make sure you have parport, parport_pc, and lp in your kernel. - make sure you have all the suggested programs

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: I have just upgraded to potato. My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but now I get the message Waiting for lp to become ready. I don't see anything in dmesg about the printer daemon being started. Did I not configure this properly? If you changed

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-12 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Paul spoke on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 05:01:58PM -0500: Hi everybody, I am having problems getting my printing working. When I try to print I get this error message Hi everybody, I am having a problem getting my printer working. I have upgraded from Corel

Printing problem

2000-11-11 Thread Paul
Hi everybody, I am having problems getting my printing working. When I try to print I get this error message Hi everybody, I am having a problem getting my printer working. I have upgraded from Corel Linux 1.2 to a full Woody distro. The printing that was setup in corel broke which I expected

Even more on network printing problem.

2000-09-14 Thread complaw
Alright Ladies and Gentlemen, here is round three of the still-not-solved network printing problem. upon typing the command: lpr -Plp35 test.txt I get: lpr; connect: Connection refused jobs queried, but cannot start daemon. I ran lpq -Plp35 and got: Warning

Printing Problem on a Network

2000-09-13 Thread complaw
I'm not sure why, but my Linux box that was printing just fine to a network printer (via TCP/IP) no longer works. Netscape, enscript, WordPerfect, Adobe, all worked fine until, one day (yesterday) they didn't. I restarted lpd, but to no avail. Incidentally, the Linux box has not been rebooted.

Re: Printing Problem on a Network

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why, but my Linux box that was printing just fine to a network printer (via TCP/IP) no longer works. Netscape, enscript, WordPerfect, Adobe, all worked fine until, one day (yesterday) they didn't. I restarted lpd, but

Re: (More on) Printing Problem on a Network

2000-09-13 Thread complaw
Okay, I have some more diagnostic information about this problem. I've run lpr to try a print job and get the following error message: lpr; connect: Connection refused jobs queried, but cannot start daemon ps aux shows lpd running (two processes). lpd restart and lpd stop/start don't make any

solved the IIP printing problem

2000-08-24 Thread hawk
After fighting for the IIP for a couple of days, it suddenly printed a page when I turned on the computer this morning--and then would no longer do anything but fail to print, have errors, etc. But I've found the asolution: Someone had an unused Laserjet 4plus, which works fine after running

netatalk printing problem: need help!

2000-07-11 Thread James D. Freels
I have installed the netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6 from Debian/Linux 2.2 (frozen). I am almost there getting a HP LaserJet IV PS+ to print over appletalk network on my Linux bos, but am still having some problems. The papstatus shows that the printer is found and working OK. I get the following

Re: netatalk printing problem: need help!

2000-07-11 Thread andrew morgan
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, James D. Freels wrote: I have installed the netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6 from Debian/Linux 2.2 (frozen). I am almost there getting a HP LaserJet IV PS+ to print over appletalk network on my Linux bos, but am still having some problems. The papstatus shows that the

Samba printing problem after upgrade slink-potato

2000-06-21 Thread Alexander List
Hi, I just upgraded our office fileserver to potato, running samba 2.0.7-2, lprng 3.6.12-6 and an HP LaserJet 4050 TN connected to the LAN. Everything worked fine until the upgrade from slink to potato. The following (very) weird thing happens now: - when I lpr a file from the Linux box

Printing problem with Corel Linux

2000-05-02 Thread Martti Hamunen
Hello! I have Epson Stylus Color 600. When I print so there is in the beginning on the paper the message No filename for parameters given. Assume stcany. What and how must I do? Martti

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Also check /etc/lpd.perms. It has stricter defaults in the potato version, it seems. I had to work a bit with that to get it to work, but now it definitely does. It is not broken (for me) in potato. Bye Giacomo

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what is the difference between chown lp files and chown lp.lp files? i tried it both ways. In potato current lprng (3.6.12-1) uses daemon.lp uid/gid. Mirek

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what > is the difference between "chown lp files>" and "chown lp.lp files>"? i >

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. I don't have any problem with lprng :) Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: thanks for the advice. changing

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with a uid/gid that the lpd daemon couldn't retreive, filling my var completely up blocking other services as mail etc...) i tryyed to

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, I use lprng but maybe I help you On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:29:25PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello, i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with a uid/gid that the lpd

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEHOST SAMEUSERACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root ^^^ I think, this is in a separate line? yes bad cutpaste... $ checkpc what's that??? i haven't this

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread David B. Wilson
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: #! /bin/sh gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ pbm2ppa - - | ^ Why this pipe? pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into something my HP 720 can understand (ppa?). The above script is verbatum from the pbm2ppa

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:18:13PM +, David B. Wilson wrote: Mirek Kwasniak wrote: #! /bin/sh gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ pbm2ppa - - | ^ Why this pipe? pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into something my HP

LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the lpr file.ps command, nothing happens, no errors, no output. I have two parallel

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem stays. It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Petru David Wilson wrote: I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the lpr file.ps

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem stays. It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many others use lprng for

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
I also tried to a remote network printer (Novell) and had the same problem. If it is a bug, how do I (we) determine which package has the problem for filing a bug report? That I am not the only one experiencing the problem gives me faith that I wasn't doing something too stupid. Dave Petru

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread ^chewie
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: David I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the lpr file.ps

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what is the difference between chown lp files and chown lp.lp files? i tried it both ways. i tried to roll back to the slink version of lprng but my method must not have been correct. first, i edited /etc/apt/sources.list

printing problem: failed connection?

1999-11-09 Thread Serge Rey
I previously was able to install my Laser Jet printer by running magicfilterconfigure. Things were working lovely. (This is all under slink) Today I, seem to have run into some problems. I'm able to have root dump stuff to the printer (i.e. ls /dev/lp0), but when I use lpr I get the following

printing problem

1999-09-10 Thread Brian E. Lavender
Anyway, I am trying to get printing going, which I have done before, and I can not seem to get basic output to go out the parallel port. I checked my kernel configuration, and I realized that I did not have parallel support compiled into the kernel. With make menuconfig under the kernel compile, I

Re: printing problem

1999-09-10 Thread lexchive
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:12:08AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: debian:/usr/src/linux# echo hello world /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device When you recompiled the kernel with parport support, did you also enable the `Support for PC-style hardware' (or something like

Re: printing problem

1999-09-10 Thread Brian E. Lavender
Yes, I enabled support for PC-styled hardware when I recompiled the kernel with modular support for the parallel port. I successfully used modconf to insert the modules parport and parport_pc If I do an lsmod I get debian:~# lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc

Re: printing problem

1999-09-10 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 01:56:40AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: Yes, I enabled support for PC-styled hardware when I recompiled the kernel with modular support for the parallel port. I successfully used modconf to insert the modules parport and parport_pc If I do an lsmod I get

Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-09 Thread Patrick Olson
I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried setting up apsfilter and magicfilter, using the filter ljet2p,

Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-09 Thread lexchive
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:29:12AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: I saw a situation with the LaserJet III where if the OS specified the number of copies, it would obey. If the OS does not specify, the printer uses its setting. I had a surprise one day because someone had set the printer to

Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried setting up apsfilter and magicfilter, using the filter ljet2p, ljet2plo

Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-08 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 04:43:08PM +0200, Lex Chive wrote: I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried setting

Re: Printing problem with HP LaserJet IIP

1999-09-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Lex Chive wrote: The printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). We have the same model printer here and I got it working on the first try with magicfilter. I don't recall which filter I picked, and the portable I configure is out of the office right now. But just to let you know it works for me,

Printing problem..

1999-08-18 Thread Steve Gore
I'm running a pure potato box, using lprng and a2ps. My printer is a Brother M-1824L dot-matrix using Epson emulation. I've selected the Epsom driver from apsfilterconfig. The problem is that printed output runs over the page length. I'm using tractor-feed, letter size paper. I have selected

Re: Printing problem

1999-08-18 Thread Paul Miller
Isabelle Poueriet wrote: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Why use a printfilter? As far as I know, all HP

Re: Printing problem

1999-08-18 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Y'all, On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 07:51:10AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Isabelle Poueriet wrote: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter:\

Printing problem

1999-08-17 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello everyone. I am running Debian 2.1 and I am unable to print any files that are not ascii text. i.e. I can't print from netscape, or wordperfect but I can type: lpr asciifilename at the shell command and that works. I know I'm using the correct driver for my printer. What else could I be

Re: Printing Problem

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:26:08AM +0800, Kelvin Chow wrote: Dear Debian Users, I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to lpr file. I still have the following problem though. lpd should be

Printing Problem

1999-07-17 Thread Kelvin Chow
Dear Debian Users, I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to lpr file. I still have the following problem though. $ lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP LaserJet 6L' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status:

Re: Printing Problem

1999-07-17 Thread Mark Wagnon
Kelvin Chow wrote: Dear Debian Users, I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to lpr file. [lpq stuff snipped] Seems like the system constantly thinks that my printer is a network printer. It is

Re: Printing Problem

1999-07-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Kelvin == Kelvin Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Debian Users, I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to lpr file. check that you don't have stale lock files in /var/spool/lpd if the

printing problem with 2.2.4 kernel

1999-05-27 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello! I have slink with the lpd package. When I upgrade from 2.0.36 to the 2.2.4 kernel, there are two lpd daemon processes, and nothing is printed. parport, parport_pc, lp are loaded as modules, and seems to wokring properly according to parprobe which report correcty my HPLJ5L printer. When I

printing problem

1999-04-16 Thread Mans Joling
Hi On several questions on my printing problem. When I type lpq it says no entries. echo test test lpr test Notihing happens. But I have looked in lp-errs and the are many lines with the following text /bin/sh: /usr/bin/djscript:No such file or directory /etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter: /usr/bin

Re: printing problem

1999-04-16 Thread Richard Harran
previously mentioned was working. I suggest you try commenting out the old 'default' line in your dj500-filter, and replacing it with this. HTH Rich PS. anyone know where to get djscript from, or if it is worth using? Mans Joling wrote: Hi On several questions on my printing problem. When I

Re: printing problem [SOLVED]

1999-04-16 Thread Mans Joling
? Mans Joling wrote: Hi On several questions on my printing problem. When I type lpq it says no entries. echo test test lpr test Notihing happens. But I have looked in lp-errs and the are many lines with the following text /bin/sh: /usr/bin/djscript:No such file or directory

Re: printing problem

1999-04-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Either edit /etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter to not use djscript (see the remarks in this file) or install the djtools package. Bob On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Mans Joling wrote: Hi On several questions on my printing problem. When I type lpq it says no entries. echo test test lpr test Notihing

Re: printing problem

1999-04-15 Thread Conrado Badenas
Mans Joling wrote: When I run : lpr file the printer is being initialize and further nothing happens. My printerport is /dev/lp1. echo test /dev/lp1 works. When magicfilter filter specifies a program that you don't have, nothing happens (no error message is issued). For example: some weeks

printing problem

1999-04-14 Thread Mans Joling
Hi I have use magicfilerconfig --force . I fillin everything for a hp deskjet500 say done and enter. When I run : lpr file the printer is being initialize and further nothing happens. My printerport is /dev/lp1. echo test /dev/lp1 works. Any idea.

RE: printing problem

1999-04-14 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hi I have use magicfilerconfig --force . I fillin everything for a hp deskjet500 say done and enter. When I run : lpr file the printer is being initialize and further nothing happens. My printerport is /dev/lp1. echo test /dev/lp1 works. Any idea. If you are using lprng, try checkin

Re: printing problem

1999-04-14 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Type 'lpq' and see what it says. Also, do 'tail /var/log/daemon.log' and see if there are any messages in there pertaining to lpd. Mans Joling wrote: Hi I have use magicfilerconfig --force . I fillin everything for a hp deskjet500 say done and enter. When I run : lpr file the printer is

printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Mans Joling
Hi, I have installed my printer hp deskjet 500 with magicfilterconfig The device is assigned to /dev/lp0. When I try printing with : lpr file nothing happens. I have looked in HOWTO printing but I can not found what's wrong. Every minute the printer is initialize and further nothing happens. Any

Re: printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Sean
What does your /etc/printcap look like? When you used magicfilterconfig, did you exit by typing done, or did you control-C . . . (had a friend who kept control-C-ing to exit magicfilterconfig . . . he never mentioned that point, and I was baffled for weeks) Sean Mans Joling wrote: Hi, I

printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Mans Joling
Hi My printcap file look like this : lp|dj5|hp deskjet500:\ :lp:/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj5:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/.magicfilter/dj500-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: The command as root : echo text /dev/lp1

Re: printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Sean
Ah ha, there's the problem . . . you said in your previous post that: I have installed my printer hp deskjet 500 with magicfilterconfig The device is assigned to /dev/lp0. Evidently your parrallel port is lp1 and not lp0, so rerun magicfilterconfig, and specify /dev/lp1 as the port instead of

[robbie: something wrong with my mail system? (was:[M.Joling@caiw.nl: printing problem])]

1999-04-13 Thread robbie
Oops. forgot the rest of the address.. -- Rob Murray ---BeginMessage--- Hi I received this debian-user message in my inbox. There seams to be something weird going on. Some of the headers are in the body of the message. I use exim, fetchmail, procmail, and mutt. Incoming messages go like this:

Re: printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Mans Joling wrote: Hi My printcap file look like this : lp|dj5|hp deskjet500:\ :lp:/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj5:\ It looks like you're set to lp1, re-run magicfilterconfig --force :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\

Re: printing problem

1999-04-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printing problem Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 05:10:23PM + In reply to:Mans Joling Quoting Mans Joling([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi My printcap file look like this : lp|dj5|hp deskjet500:\ :lp:/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj5:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px

Printing Problem

1999-04-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
It seems that I have broken my printing capability. When trying to print from various programs I get: connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection timed out job 'cfA492korn' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Today I set up Debian to use my cable modem. Could this have something to do

Re: Printing Problem

1999-04-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
George Bonser wrote: check your /etc/hosts.lpd and make sure that your new ip address or new hostname is in there. Hi George, I don't have an /etc/hosts.lpd file. Where might I find its format? Would that be in the Net-3-HOWTO also? I'll go check. TIA --

printing problem

1999-03-22 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Well, I guess I was wrong about resolving my problem with my printer. I tried the HPLJ4L filter and it worked, unfortunately not quite as well as I thought. Apparently it prints up very nicely. Only problem is that when it gets to the end of the file it cuts off the last page.

lj5P and remote printing problem

1998-11-28 Thread Jan Krupa
I cannot get my local printer laserjet5P to print. I have installed magicfilter and I chose lj4lp filter and it does not work I mean that the command 'lpr foo.ps' prints strange code (e.g.:roun exch round exch... F000FC14...) Which filter should I choose. Also I have postricpt printer HP

lj5P and remote printing problem

1998-11-28 Thread Jan Krupa
I cannot get my local printer laserjet5P to print. I have installed magicfilter and I chose lj4lp filter and it does not work I mean that the command 'lpr foo.ps' prints strange code (e.g.:roun exch round exch... F000FC14...) Which filter should I choose? Also I have a postricpt printer HP

printing problem [was Re: Problems switching to debian

1998-11-05 Thread Zack Brown
printing is completely dead. It's as though I didn't have a printer. Nothing I do has any affect on it. This has nothing to do with any changes I made to my system. It's dead from the moment I install. I have a WinBook XL (which runs linux great in general by the way) and a

Re: Printing Problem

1998-10-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 09:20:20AM +, Kent West wrote: So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version of lpr? As Spock might say, that is by no means certain. lprng has one feature I would like -- bounce queues. lpr can accomplish this, but uses messy scripts to do

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-30 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
wrote: OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: [...] bash-2.01$ lpc status cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' - Connection refused In the file /var/spool/lpd/lp/status.lp, it contains: opening '/dev/lp1' at 00:32:52, attempt 1, timeout 10

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-30 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again Shao! On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: Hi all, Thanks for all the help... But I still cannot print! don't worry, it will! ;-) I have actually done it in debian before. But

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-30 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr regards, Ulisses This question is from Kent, not Shao. So, can I understand this

Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I used magicfilter to generate a printcap. when I tried to print something out, it gives me the following error: connection to 'localhost' failed -

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Shao! On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, I used magicfilter to generate a printcap. when I tried to print something out, it gives me the following error:

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: bash-2.01$ dpkg --list | grep lprng ii lprng 3.4.2-5lpr/lpd printer spooling system ii lprng-doc 3.4.1-3lpr/lpd printer spooli bash-2.01$ ps ax | grep LPD 419 p1 S0:00 grep LPD bash

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again! On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: [...] bash-2.01$ lpc status cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' - Connection refused In the file /var/spool/lpd/lp

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Antal Ritter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 10:23:50PM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: bash-2.01$ dpkg --list | grep lprng ii lprng 3.4.2-5lpr/lpd printer spooling system ii lprng-doc 3.4.1-3lpr/lpd

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr regards, Ulisses This question is from Kent, not Shao. So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version of lpr? When I tried the above command

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr This is an error - it should be dpkg -l |grep lpr (that is a lower case L) and then some help information. I double-checked the command and I had the syntax the way you specified. Do I

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
KW == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr KW So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version KW of lpr? I think it is rather another printdaemon. But ng is New

printing problem

1998-07-01 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm having problems printing on a newly upgraded hamm system, and was wondering if anyone else has run into this. Yesterday I used the autoup.sh script, followed by 3 rounds with dselect (apt method), to perform the bo - hamm upgrade. Everything appeared to have gone perfectly. But now if I do

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? ..

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from Well, you can hit the archives at www.debian.org and search

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-30 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 22:21:03 EST, Daniel Martin wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from being implemented? Or does a search function plan

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-29 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: with your resources. DejaNews (http://www.dejanews.com) searches the Debian List, so if you have a question which you think is likely to be common (I'd imagine configuring a deskjet is somewhat common), you might try searching the list

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-29 Thread David Stern
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997 19:59:52 PST, George Bonser wrote: I really would not want to see debian-user on deja news ... deja-news is a spam harvester's dream. If deja-news picks it up, I would want to see all articles from the gateway have an X-No-Archive: yes header inserted so that the

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-29 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? .. Well, you can hit the archives at

Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
I can print now. I am not completely sure what I did to fix the problem -- I reran magicfilterconfig, I reinstalled gs, and I changed the printer defined by magicfilter from DeskJet 500C to plain DeskJet 500. I still maintain that the docs for *nix printing are among the worst I've ever seen . .

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread David Stern
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:59:23 EST, wrote: I can print now. Congratulations. :-) I am not completely sure what I did to fix the problem -- I reran magicfilterconfig, I reinstalled gs, and I changed the printer defined by magicfilter from DeskJet 500C to plain DeskJet 500. Even though it

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
Even though it takes longer, I've gotten to the point where I want to isolate individual issues whenever possible. This aids me in learning, maintaining and troubleshooting. Of course, when things are fubar, that's another story. In principle, I agree. When I'm really, really frustrated

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