On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:52:28AM +1200, John Rye wrote:
-> Hi all
-> 
-> After several weeks <GRIN> of reinstalling the reinstall from the
-> previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think)
-> running..Well sort of...
-> 
-> I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me.
-> 
-> I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason cannot
-> print from anywhere else.. I suspect that I may have some kind of
-> lock in the spooler but haven't been able to locate it... 

Did you asign your printer a name other than lp? If so you have to tell
lpr to send to that printer's queue instead of to the default queue,
lp. If you named your printer fred, print to it with:

lpr -Pfred file.txt



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