Help programming printer

2003-11-09 Thread jse
I am trying to port an old MS-DOS program and I have run into a stumbling block. The Mess Dos program wrote directly to the printer. I can't seem to find much information on how to print from a program. Can anyone recommend information on a web page or a book that I can learn more? Or am

Machine stops responding for a minute or so?

2003-09-20 Thread jse
I have a remote machine running icecast to send an internet radio stream and it also serves the web page. Every now and then it just quits responding for a minute or so. The audio stream stops, it won't dish up the web page, I can't ping it, and the ssh session I keep open doesn't respond

KDM won't start KDE

2003-08-20 Thread jse
I just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on this machine and I set up kdm to run by changing /etc/ttys to: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure When it boots I get: login: ..time.. kdm[127]: Abnormal helper termination, code 0, signal 73 But KDM seems to start up fine and I get the login