On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Eric Jahn wrote:
> just make a new character device which will be called /dev/lp0. I think this
> is low risk and easy to undo if it doesn't work:
> #mknod /dev/lp0 c 6 0
> #chown root.lp /dev/lp0
> #chmod 660 /dev/lp0 (myself I start with 777 then back off to 660)
>
> then check to see if it's working with these low-level commands:
> # touch test.txt
> # echo "Hello World" > test.txt
> # cat test.txt > /dev/lp0
You can skip test.txt:
# echo Hello World > /dev/lp0
With some printers you may need to do this instead:
# echo -e Hello World\\f > /dev/lp0
\f = form feed
That should work with bash's echo; unsure about other "echo"s.
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