Thanks, I was able to figure out what I was doing wrong by looking at 
     the old printcap.  It looks like I had declared the printer local, 
     when it was really a remote printer.  As soon as I changed it from 
     local to remote and restarted lpd garbage just started coming out of 
     the printer.  Thanks again!!
     
     Now I would like it to print real stuff.  Someone mentioned a2ps?  
     Where can I find this for NetBSD, or anything that will allow me to 
     print to this HP1200c postcript/pcl printer?


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Subject: Re: Re[2]: Printing problem.
Author:  Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu> at Internet
Date:    4/13/98 10:57 AM


On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Mario Magliocco wrote:
     
>      Yup I have lpd up and running.  I accidentally erased my old printcap 
>      (the one that comes with the distribution).  I think the problem might 
>      be in the new printcap that I am using.  Do you have to specify a 
>      /dev/lp in the printcap?  Is a /dev/lp necessary when you are printing 
>      to a network printer?  It would probably be a big help if I could read 
>      over a copy of the old printcap.   Is there a place where I could find 
>      the default printcap?  
     
Does lpc indicate that the daemon is running? You might try "down"ing and 
then "up"ing the queue.
     
You should be able to get the default printcap in the etc.tgz file of the 
distribution you're using. Note: don't untar it in /etc! You can say 
something like (cd /tmp; tar xzf etc.tgz ./etc/printcap) to get just it.
     
Take care,
     
Bill