Linux-Misc Digest #100, Volume #24 Mon, 10 Apr 00 10:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Soundcard 'sharing' possible? (Emmanuel Touzery)
Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1] ("Erik
Funkenbusch")
Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf) (Friedemann Kemm)
Re: uninstalling stuff ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IT-System-ManagerIn Linux von Frequentis gesucht (Helmut Mucker)
Re: How to setup a dumb terminal as console (Mark Bratcher)
SOLVED! [Was: Re: Unable to change root password.] (Nosediver)
Re: uninstalling stuff ("Tim Haynes")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Gerald Willmann)
Re: which flavour for a 486 (Ed Hurst)
Re: kill a zombie process (J Bland)
Re: How to setup a dumb terminal as console
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Se�n � Donnchadha)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE
SIG **)
Re: XPDF install on Corel Linux (John Hasler)
Re: uninstalling stuff (John Hasler)
Re: Anyone have RH 6.2 i386 ISO yet? (Edwin Heida)
Hard disk on 2nd IDE port (Diethard Ohrt)
Re: HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 19:07:14 -0500
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Rick wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Am I the only one who really finds this thread strange? To come into a
> > linux newsgroup and claim Microsoft has a monopoly is really bizarre.
> > --
>
> It is not bizzare. It is now legal fact. A product does not have to have
> a 100% market penetration to be declared a monopoly. Microsoft has a
and the law can declare that pigs fly, but that don't make it so.
> 90-95% share of the desktop and uses that position to kill competition
> and mandate pricing. That is the definition of a monopoly.
and since Microsoft has not been able to kill linux, nor mandate it's
pricing, it follows that they do not have a monopoly.
I choose to use linux. Why should it bother me if someone else chooses to
use Windows?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emmanuel Touzery)
Subject: Re: Soundcard 'sharing' possible?
Date: 10 Apr 2000 11:55:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David
Efflandt) writes:
|> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Catilina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> >Is there a way to share my soundcard, so more than 1 program can use it at
|> >the same time?
Yes. esd (Enlightenment Sound Daemon) does this. You have to launch esd (which
is done by default when you start enlightenment and even gnome 1.x with
enlightenment I think).
To use esd, you have to change the default output of your player (xmms supports
esd output, and I even think that mpg123 does).
BTW, it should be added to kde2 with aRts (analog Real Time synthetiser), and
there should be (I hope) some compatibility with esd.
You can use esd if you don't use e/gnome I think, but the window manager sounds
will block it.. so you'll have to disable them.
--
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ass
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From: "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1]
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:08:18 -0500
James Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> one of the things abotu windows that i would like answered is that M$ keep
> saying that it runs faster eg win98 is faster than 95 and win2K is faster
that BT4
> i have found quite the oppistie i have a 486 that runs win95 ok runs word
95 fine
> under 98 its like a dog and NT4 even worse i dont even think i will bother
trying
> win2K as somebody said you need a around a P300 to do anything with it and
a whole load of
> ram but with linux you can use a 486 to do a whole lot of things at once
and it works
> and does not crash.
Windows 98 is faster than Windows 95 with IE4 installed on hardware that
meets the minimum requirements, meaning that if you have a Pentium 75 with
64 megs running Windows 95 with IE4, then Windows 98 will be faster on that
machine. If you have a 486 with 16 meg of memory and no version of IE
installed on the original Windows 95, then Windows 98 will probably be
slower.
> as for the registry comments that are going on somebody should not have to
> go though and clean it up it should not happen in the first place !!
You have to do maintenance on just about any OS. For instance, with Linux
you need to trim the logs, or else they will grow and grow. This is
commonly automated, but the task still needs to be performed somehow.
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From: Friedemann Kemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: acrobat for linux (ps -> pdf)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:12:47 +0200
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want a good utility for converting dvi or postscript files
> (generated from latex documents) to pdf files. There is free software
> (dvipdfm), but the TeX faq claims that Acrobat's distill utility is
> better and inexpensive (at least for academics). I have two questions:
>
> 1. Does Adobe have Acrobat for Linux?
I don't know
> 2. Is it worth the money?
If You want everybody who has a copy of acrobat reader to be able to view
Your documents it's definitely not. With some settings of the LANG
variable acroread is not able to extract embedded fonts in files produced
by acrobat distiller. If You produce Your document with pdflatex there is
no problem at all.
Friedemann
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: uninstalling stuff
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:22:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Simon H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If it was a well-behaved tarball then you should be able to 'make
> uninstall' from the source directory. Otherwise, rm -rf
> /usr/local/packagename/ is as good as any. (You did put it in
> /usr/local/packagename/ where it belongs, didn't you? :)
Doesn't 'packagename' break the file system standard? Well, thats what
the DOSEmu (the Denial of Service Emulator? ;) documentation says,
anyway.
tia
alexd
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,linux.jobs,at.linux
Subject: IT-System-ManagerIn Linux von Frequentis gesucht
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:40:09 +0200
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to setup a dumb terminal as console
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:49:29 -0400
Chan,
There is a specific config option in the kernel (even 2.2.14) indicating
whether you want to do console over a TTY port. By default, it's
probably turned off.
Chan Yick Wai wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For some reasons, I can't use VGA monitor as console, I tried to setup
> a dumb terminal in my notebook as console, I failed. All messages
> displayed in monitor rather than dumb terminal.
>
> I've done.
> 1) got a null modem serial cable /w 2 & 3 pin twisted.
> 2) connect COM1 of my notebook to COM2 of Linux box
> 3) edit lilo.conf add
>
> serial=1,9600n8
> image= ..
> append="console=ttyS1,9600"
> 4) check /dev/console & /dev/tty0
> both perm = 622, c, console is 5,1 tty0 is 4,0 that should be okay.
>
> 5) because I'm using Mandrake 7.0 the kernel is 2.2.14 so no
> recompilation is required. I didn't recompile it.
>
> I wonder if I've missed anything.
>
> Thanks for your expertise in advance.
>
> Chan Yick Wai
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From: Nosediver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SOLVED! [Was: Re: Unable to change root password.]
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:45:34 +0800
Hello Peter, Len, JB et.al.
Thanks a lot for responding to my question. Peter's suggestion of simply
creating a new user and then editing the /etc/passwd worked. :-) Thanks,
Peter.
Observations:
* Even though I cannot get the system to change my root
password, it can change the password of other users!
* su, su -, su root and just logging into console as root ... none of them
improve the situation. No matter from where i try to change, the root
password refuses to change.
* 'passwd root' does not work either.
On 8 Apr 2000, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> nothing, then you know that "passwd" is what's wrong. Get yourself a
> new one.
It was working fine all this while... well, ok, senility has got the
better of my passwd program, I guess...
> At worst you can create a new user with the password you want, then
> transfer the passwd field to root in /etc/passwd.
THIS WORKED! :-)
Amazed by the vagaries of computer programs,
--Su.
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From: "Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: uninstalling stuff
Date: 10 Apr 2000 14:07:50 +0100
Reply-To: "Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Simon H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If it was a well-behaved tarball then you should be able to 'make
> > uninstall' from the source directory. Otherwise, rm -rf
> > /usr/local/packagename/ is as good as any. (You did put it in
> > /usr/local/packagename/ where it belongs, didn't you? :)
>
> Doesn't 'packagename' break the file system standard? Well, thats what
> the DOSEmu (the Denial of Service Emulator? ;) documentation says,
> anyway.
FHS2 on /usr/local:
This directory should always be empty after first installing a
FHS-compliant system. No exceptions to this rule should be made
other than the listed directory stubs.
Locally installed software should be placed within /usr/local
rather than /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade
software in /usr.
If anyone thinks I'm going to install ssh, netscape, gpg, pgp, my own
versions of pine & pico, a modified wvdial, Star Orifice 5.1a, XFree86 v 4
and vmware all straight into /usr/local/{bin,man,lib} then they can take
said "FHS" and combine pain & pleasure therewith. :8]
I'll let you off, first offence ;8))
~Tim
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:27:12 -0700
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I choose to use linux. Why should it bother me if someone else chooses to
> use Windows?
because it inflicts negative network externalities on those who
don't. Just think of all those mindless MS users sending you their
documents in proprietary MS formats.
GErald
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From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which flavour for a 486
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:13:47 -0500
Peet Grobler wrote:
> I bought the Caldera Openlinux CD... Installed fine on my 486, though a bit
> slow (but what would you expect?)
> It actually supports 386 as well. (Don't go there - I did. Too damn slow)
>
> see www.calderasystems.com
>
> Dafydd Prichard wrote in message ...
> >I want to try out Linux on an old 486 (I 'normally' use Mac OS and a little
> >Windows). I've tried both Corel and Mandrake and neither will install from
> >the CDs I have as they don't appear to support 486s'. Is Slack the answer?
> >Will I have any difficulty buying/downloading a compatible version? Pls
> >advise many thanks
> >>Daf
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are some people out there with Linux distros based on the 2.0.x series
kernel, which would be packaged with software from the same era as 486's. For
example, I have a copy of RedHat 5.2, but I won't part with it yet. You may be
able to download the whole thing, or buy a CD from some vendors still. I'm
pretty sure you could get it piecemeal from www.rufus.w3.org .
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: kill a zombie process
Date: 10 Apr 2000 13:25:40 GMT
On 10 Apr 2000 12:12:05 GMT, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:07:20 +0200, Peet Grobler wrote:
>>How would you go about killing a zombie process?
>
>Zombies are already dead, and don't use memory or the cpu
>(unless you're sitting there doing ps -aux every 100th of a
>second). I found that logging out removes them from the lsit,
>when I log in again they're gone.
>
Quite, usually if you carry on as you are the parent of the process will be
exited or whatever and you'll never notice it was there in the first place.
Unless it's causing an *actual* problem you can just ignore them (unless
they try to eat your brains).
JB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to setup a dumb terminal as console
Date: 10 Apr 2000 13:33:19 GMT
please read serial.faq (LDP howto)
Chan Yick Wai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
: For some reasons, I can't use VGA monitor as console, I tried to setup
: a dumb terminal in my notebook as console, I failed. All messages
: displayed in monitor rather than dumb terminal.
: I've done.
: 1) got a null modem serial cable /w 2 & 3 pin twisted.
: 2) connect COM1 of my notebook to COM2 of Linux box
: 3) edit lilo.conf add
: serial=1,9600n8
: image= ..
: append="console=ttyS1,9600"
: 4) check /dev/console & /dev/tty0
: both perm = 622, c, console is 5,1 tty0 is 4,0 that should be okay.
: 5) because I'm using Mandrake 7.0 the kernel is 2.2.14 so no
: recompilation is required. I didn't recompile it.
: I wonder if I've missed anything.
: Thanks for your expertise in advance.
: Chan Yick Wai
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From: Se�n � Donnchadha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:40:58 -0400
Mike Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Unix: ibid
>>
>> No, it was invented by the aforementioned people as a scaled down Multics.
>
>Do you mean no, it wasn't an innovation, or no, it wasn't At&T? Either way,
>you're laughably wrong.
>
Unix was a castrated version of Multics. Its name is even a pun on
that. There was *NOTHING* innovative about it, at least in the first
version.
>>
>> Java has fewer innovations than anything else. For instance, the JVM was
>> really just a take on the SmallTalk VM. The only thing innovative was their
>> useage of existing technologies, something which Microsoft does all the
>> time.
>
>Not having pointers? RMI? Boy, you've really drunk the Kool-Aid.
>
Not having pointers was a Java innovation?! Man oh man, if the other
guy's on Kool-Aid, you must be in a crack coma! Not to mention that
Java does have pointers (although it calls them references).
>> >
>> > PostScript: Adobe
>>
>> PostScript is just another page layout language.
>
>When you look at it that way, virtually *nothing* is innovative. The atom bomb
>was just another firecracker. I hate the way Microsoft and their minions try to
>drag everyone else down to their level.
>
And I hate the way anti-Microsoft buffoons hold Microsoft to higher
standards than their pet companies and technologies.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:45:11 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Steuber:
[Snip...]
|> Microsoft's most important
|> innovation?
"Bob" the GUI from Hell: a babysitter better sat by the babies themselves.
[Snip...]
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XPDF install on Corel Linux
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:33:57 GMT
K Fahm writes:
> I assume xpdf requires X windows libraries installed first and with only
> KDE on my Linux version, does it mean I have to install Xfree first ?
You have X installed. KDE requires X.
> Anyone struck similar problems putting up xpdf on Corel Linux ?
Go to www.debian.org and get the xpdf Debian package. Corel Linux is a
small subset of Debian and uses the Debian package manager. Any Debian
package will install on Corel.
If you add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
the Corel package manager (a wrapper around Debian's apt) will be able to
fetch and install any Debian package over the Net.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstalling stuff
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:50:10 GMT
Peter M. writes:
> When does it make sense for a program to spread itself out?
When, for example, /usr is mounted read-only and /usr/share is mounted over
the LAN. A great deal of thought has gone into the FHS.
> But you do lose so e amount of control for the ease of use.
With more than 600 packages installed I don't have time for 'control'.
I'll let the maintainer of each of those packages decide where to put its
files. He knows more about his package than I have time to learn.
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Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Edwin Heida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Anyone have RH 6.2 i386 ISO yet?
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:53:10 +0200
Hi
You could try different Tucows servers in your area. They also offer the ISO
images.
(just head over to www.tucows.com and you should be able to choose some of
the mirror sites)
I do think it's annoying that most servers don't support resuming. I finally
managed to download one from a server close to me (I live in Holland) and
thank God it went well. I did three attempts from the Redhat ftp, all cut
off. And no resuming option. Nooo sir. I mean, I do have a fast cable
connection, but it is frustrating to wait for quite a long time... The second
attempt was almost succesfull. I was around 550 Mb, and all of a sudden:
poof. 'connection lost.' curses curses curses. :-| Well, I have it now, and I
installed it. Works fine. I love Linux!
Edwin
"Klaus K�niger" wrote:
> Try www.linuxiso.org !
>
> Cheers
>
> Klaus
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> John Hovell schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Sorry if you guys think this post is inappropriate.
> >
> >But I know there are only like 10 or so mirrors internationally right
> >now for RH 6.2 Zoot.
> >
> >Does anyone (perhaps on Internet2 -- that means you have .edu at the end
> >of your domain -- as we have lots of bandwidth) who has it want to post
> >it for downloads?
> >
> >i'd be happy to do the same once i am able to get a copy.
> >
> >I'm in the silicon valley area (south of sanfrancisco) if anyone is
> >close to me from there... and I also have access to a 3000Kbps cable
> >modem... so i dunno... if anyone is willing I think it might really help
> >a lot of people out :-).
> >
> >Cheers,
> >John
> >
> >
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From: Diethard Ohrt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard disk on 2nd IDE port
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:57:40 +0200
On an old (self assembled) i486 I installed SuSE Linux 6.2. The IDE
board is a Holtek 6560/6570 set. In order to get a 2nd hard disk
working, which is connected to the 2nd IDE port (thus /dev/hdc; /dev/hdb
is the CD), I provided the kernel parameter ide0=ht6560b as suggested in
the manual. The kernel boots with no complaining (nor affirmative ...)
messages, but the 2nd device is not recognised: E.g. "fdisk /dev/hdc"
complains that it cannot connect to the drive.
What's wrong? What did I miss? How can I connect to the disk on the 2nd
IDE port?
TIA
Diethard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:52:10 GMT
Thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED]! I haven't yet "gotten back" to this
pc and its printer, to solve this problem (new dog, federal taxes,
etc.), but as soon as I do, I'll keep your ideas in-mind! Thanks again.
Sincerely,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Opinionated <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not that familiar with SuSE's setup, but I do know what your
problem
> is. You do need the filter to send your printer, Otherwise you will
get
> exactly what you are seeing when you do the cat file > /dev/lpx.
>
> Your problem in a nutshell is that the filter needs to be told to
send an
> additional Carriage Return after every line to your printer so that
the
> printer will start each line at the beginning, not at the position the
> last line left it on the previous line. Since that line position is
> beyond the area your printer can print, the printer merely spaces up a
> line without printing anything.
>
> I'm not sure what you would need to specify to your SuSE printer
> configuration tool, but in RedHat's printtool, you would check the
'fix
> stairstepping text' box. I tried looking into my filter and printcap
> files and didn't find any options there that told the filter to
generate
> this extra CR per line.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > Would very-much appreciate any "straight-up" advice, from any
> > benevolent/generous Linux users, that might bring my subject-
printer to
> > life!
> > Cannot get my HP LaserJet 5L b/w printer locally configured
properly.
> > "Goes through the motions", but output pages are completely blank;
no
> > printed chars. whatsoever.
> > I am a Linux newbie, with SuSE Linux 6.3 installed on my pc (has an
AMD
> > K6-2 450MHz with 32MB PC100 SDRAM and a 4.3GB UDMA ATA/33 hard
drive).
> > I've attempted configurations via YaST, and apsfilter. I've setup
as a
> > device at /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 (... separately; not both active
> > configs., at same time). Printer drivers attempted thusfar, as a
> > 'Postcript'-type printer, include ljet4; as an 'Other'-type printer,
> > include (? spelling not necessarily correct on my part. Sorry!):
> > ljet5gray, ljet5mono, ljet4mono, ljet4gray, pxlmono, pxlgray,
> > ljet4Lgray, ljet4Lmono, lj4dith.
> > However, upon command 'tunelp /dev/lp0' (altern. 'tunelp
/dev/lp1'), I
> > get the following stdout: "/dev/lp0 [sic. /dev/lp1] using IRQ -1."
> > When I attempt to data-print directly to my HP LaserJet 5L, via
command
> > 'cat /var/log/boot.msg > /dev/lp0 [sic. cat /var/log/boot.msg >
> > /dev/lp1]", my HP LaserJet 5L does process, ...but again, all output
> > pages are blank pages. What am I doing wrong?
> > Sincerely,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
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