[ale] slackware

[William Mahavier]

>From ale-owner at cc.gatech.edu Sun Oct 27 15:25 EST 1996
>> Unfortunately I still have no printer. When I try
>> cat testfile > /dev/lp0, the lights on my HP 4MP blink, but
>> nothing prints. If I then go back to windows 95 and try to 
>
>well, for some odd reason, my printer on LPT1 is /dev/lp1... might try that. 
>I think there is something about that in linux/Documentation/Devices.txt,
>but I'm not for sure.  /dev/lp0 doesn't work for me, but /dev/lp1 does on
>two different computers... 

I found I that cat testfile > /dev/lp0 to my cannon bjc-210
printed my testfile (with no CR's) and the hp would print if I
took it offline and pressed the formfeet button. Apparently it
hangs without some eof character. So I decided I was talking to 
talking to my printers. So I installed apsfilter, telling
it I had a PS printer. Now I need to know what to read next.

I tried
lpr -Praw testfile, and nothing printed.
lpr -Pascii testfile and nothing printed.
lpr -raw testfile not only printed nothing but deleted my testfile

So far I have found nothing in the docs that came with apsfilter
that tells me how to print. Do I need the printing usage howto?

Thanks one more time.