Esix lp setup - HELP!

[Martin J. Schedlbauer]

In article <1991Jan9.001912.18605 at csrd.uiuc.edu> patrick at whistle.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes:
>I'm trying to get my matrix printer going on my Esix system.  I've read through
>the book, and issued what I believe to be the correct commands.  When I issue
>"enable mp1" nothing appears to happen.  When I enter "lpstat -p mp1 -l", it
>tells me the reason "mp1" is disabled is "New Printer".  How do I get this
>monster going?
>

You should run the 'initprt' command. It will ask you for a printer name
(like mp1), a printer type (probably standard or dumb) and the parallel
or serial line it is on (lp0 for parallel port 0).

It'll do the rest and even enable the printer for you. To print use lp
<file> provided you made mp1 the default printer (initprt does that if
you answer 'y' to one of its questions)..

	...Martin


Martin Schedlbauer				(mschedlb at ulowell.edu)
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854		(Tel: (508) 934-3612)