port-mac68k: printing to hp deskjet 500

Subject: printing to hp deskjet 500
To: port-mac68k list <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Philip Brodd <pbrodd@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/02/2000 20:03:38

I've connected an HP DeskJet 500 to a Quadra 950 (running 1.5) using a serial
cable that came with an old Mac modem.

An old post on this issue from the archives suggests trying to communicate with
the printer via a terminal program to see if it's listening.  I'd like to try
this, but I'm not sure how to do it.

Would Minicom work for this purpose?  And would I just point it at /dev/tty01
and start typing, or something?

Thanks.

Phil