whew!


[btw, cheers to Markus Illenseer for input on our drive problem, it
looks like the drive's on the way out as more and more bad blocks
were coming up on different machines/controllers with
known-to-be-good termination and cabling.  all vital gear was
salvaged and up - i have to admit, there was no way it could be
airflow problems with the lid-off-pared-down-for-action machines i
run ;-]


Anyway.  this time, a quick question for folks using printers with
BSD1.1 - what's the story behind the 'lp' device not being in the
distribution but being referred to by 'most all of the lpd/printcap
manpages?  [i'm now trying to get a star "starscript" laserprinter
connected - catenating generic raw PS files thru par0 seems to work,
but using lpd via par0 puts manky PS headers on the top which chokes
the printer - perhaps catenating to the correct 'lp' device would
interpret the headers correctly and strip them?  [lp didn't seem to
be in MAKEDEV either].  so:


[1] should '/dev/lp' be around under BSD-Ami 1.1, or is par0 now the
correct method to use with printers and PS output, and i've just not
set up the printcap and lpd correctly?  [wouldn't surprise me...]

[2] anybody using a similar printer, and wants to trade printcaps?


[i don't think it's the printer itself, as although it seems to think
it's got 208k of internal RAM as opposed to 2M, another laserprinter
does exaxtly the same thing and works fine on other OSs...]


par0?  lp?  anybody the wiser?  [non-missioncritical shrugs here ;-]


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