At 8:03 PM -0500 10/2/00, Philip Brodd wrote:
>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?

I'd suggest tip.  See the man page.  Also look at the man page for /etc/remote.

As to what you type after you connect, I don't know but maybe:  some 
ordinary text followed by a line feed (ctl-J) and a form feed (ctl-L, 
is it?).


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