Subject: Re: Canon Bubblejet 4300
To: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/18/1999 14:42:57
Actually, would you have the time to come up with the text for
a quick printing howto? Generally the best person to write
an entry is someone who has just been through the learning curve
:)
If you know HTML that would be even better, but plain text
would be fine.
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, George Sollish wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, David Brownlee wrote
> [regarding adding changing /dev/lpt* to /dev/lpa* in /etc/printcap to cure
> printing problems]
> > Definitely worth adding to the www FAQ :)
>
> I agree that this trick (changing /dev/lpt* to /dev/lpa* in /etc/printcap)
> should be documented to the FAQ. I appreciate that most of us are coming
> from some other OS and shouldn't need much hand-holding, but using NetBSD
> shouldn't be only for unix gurus either. A printing HowTo like those
> already on site might be worthwhile.
>
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