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Line Printing?

by Zachary Kline :: Rate this Message:

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Hello,
        I admit I'm not very well-versed in the particulars of the lpd daemon.
I seem to be dealing with a fairly basic problem: namely, that the line printer that I've enabled and attached via SIMH Vax doesn't seem to be detected.  
I might be simply barking up the wrong tree in trying to print from the simulated VAX at all, but if I'm not I'd appreciate some information.  The /dev/lp file doesn't seem to exist--I'm a little puzzled.  Does that file normally get created by MAKEDEV?  Is it something I have to handle manually?  
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated,
Zack.


Re: Line Printing?

by Hugo Villeneuve-2 :: Rate this Message:

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/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/conf/GENERIC and /usr/src/sys/conf/GENERIC
will give you an idea of what driver, pseudo-devices and options
VAX get compiled with.

no lpt.

I also doubt VAX came with IBM PC's lpt ports. I don't use SIMH
since I have a real VAXstation 4000/60 so I don't know what that
software means by attaching a printer.

My real VAX can only use a serial printer over /dev/tty0[0-4] (can't
remember which one).


On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:08:33PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:

> Hello,
> I admit I'm not very well-versed in the particulars of the lpd daemon.
> I seem to be dealing with a fairly basic problem: namely, that the
> line printer that I've enabled and attached via SIMH Vax doesn't
> seem to be detected.
> I might be simply barking up the wrong tree in trying to print from
> the simulated VAX at all, but if I'm not I'd appreciate some
> information.  The /dev/lp file doesn't seem to exist--I'm a little
> puzzled.  Does that file normally get created by MAKEDEV?  Is it
> something I have to handle manually?
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated,
> Zack.

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