Hi!  I'm trying to get printing to work on my i386 box.  I've got an HP 
DeskJet 500 hooked up to the parallel port.  If I cat something to 
/dev/lpt0, it prints, but whenever I try to print using lp(1), the print 
job just sits there.

The strange thing is, it's using a strange printcap that doesn't exist 
on my system (or so it seems).  Here's my printcap (irrelevant lines 
deleted):

#       $NetBSD: printcap,v 1.6 2000/02/02 16:04:51 hubertf Exp $
#       from: @(#)printcap      8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93

#lp|local line printer:\
#       :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

#Hewlett Packard DeskJet 500
lp|deskjet|hp500dj|Hewlett Packard DeskJet 500:\        #name
    :lp=/dev/lpt0:\             # print device
    :sh:\                       # suppress header page
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/deskjet:\ # spool directory
    :lp=/var/log/deskjet.log:\   # log file
    :if=/usr/local/libexec/hpif:\ #input filter for text
    :mx#0:                       # no max file size

The odd thing is, when I try to print I get an error in 
/var/log/lpd-errs saying that '/dev/lp' doesn't exist.  This is odd 
because (a) my log file should be /var/log/deskjet.log and (b) the 
device should be /dev/lpt0.  I've restarted the daemon several times, 
and stopped and restarted the queue (using lpc(8)) several times.  It 
seems to be reading the first entry, even through I've commented it out.

Is there something I have to do after I modify /etc/printcap to cause it 
to be re-read, or is it shadowed somewhere?  I tried linking /dev/lp to 
/dev/lpt0, but the output was garbled.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide!  I know this is some fairly 
obsolete hardware, but I'd like to get it working.

Cheers!
-- Tracy Nelson