I probably should know...but I don't

[Craig White]

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> der.hans
> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 12:36 AM
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> Subject: RE: I probably should know...but I don't
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>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Craig White wrote:
>
> > OK - lpr filename works...the first time it mumbled something
> about using
> > procfs but of course...I was too impatient to see what it meant.
> >
> > the printer defaults to wanting A4 sheets which dutifully
> causes my printer
> > to prompt me for A4 sheets. Any clues on how to adjust it to
> default to US
> > Letter?
>
> Look in /etc/printcap. The symbol for papersize is probably in the
> printcap manpage. There's also a printing HOWTO on www.LinuxDoc.org.
>
> /me just setup my first printers last week and it wasn't too difficult.
>--
No it wasn't difficult - I'm rather funny. Difficult things I will work thru
myself. The easy stuff, I get impatient and just ask the group - shoot me.

Turns out that the problem was the 'filter' file which is located in the
/var/spool/lpd/lp subdiretory. Printcap suggests that you don't edit
directly (probably a good idea) so I ended up deleting the printer & the
/var/spool/lpd/lp subdirectory and set up again which took care of the
problem.

Thanks all.

Craig
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