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Question of the Day
Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 Started conversation Jun 30, 2000
This is almost certainly HP-Unix specific, but here goes:
From where can one get a PostScript driver for a HP printer (LaserJet 4 Plus) for installation on an HP-Unix machine (11.0)?
Question of the Day
Phil Posted Jun 30, 2000
A few questions for you the Administrator-General...
Is the printer a networked printer or is it being connected directly to the machine? The other query is that the HP LJ4+ you want to connect talks postscript doesn't it. I think it should do but I'm not sure.
Anyway getting to the heart of the matter, you need to set up the printer in the /etc/printcap file and setup the spool files for the printer as well (usually /var/spool/lpd/*).
Other handy hints and tips can probably be found searching deja, I normally use a power search (http://www.deja.com/usenet ) and on metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/ ).
I'll go and have a look and if I see anything I'll let you know.
Question of the Day
Phil Posted Jun 30, 2000
and quickly I found a couple of ideas for you.
the lpadmin command in hp-ux and the use of the jetdirect utility to configure the printer (they said to make sure you've got the latest version from HPs website).
Question of the Day
Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 Posted Jul 3, 2000
(1) The printer is networked. (2) It has a "PS Menu", which is to say, it has a PostScript card loaded in. (3) /etc/printcap may be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll go check, after Independence Day holiday is over... (USA! USA!!)
Anyway, thanks very much for your help.
Question of the Day #2
Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 Posted Jul 3, 2000
A more trivial Question of the Day, but something I've had to deal with in documentation:
Is our favorite operating system spelled "Unix" or "UNIX"? Is the capitalization important?
Question of the Day #2
Marvin, the Maniacally Depressed Robot Posted Jul 29, 2000
Hmmm. I really don't know. 
Question of the Day #2
Crescent Posted Jul 29, 2000
In the big, heavy books it always seem to be UNIX........
BCNU - Crescent
Question of the Day #2
Phil Posted Jul 30, 2000
And I prefer unix as it isn't a standard trademark like Unix (and possibly UNIX) so it can include things like HURD and Linux which are never likely to go through The Open Group's standards track.
Question of the Day #2
xyroth Posted Aug 23, 2000
Sorry to disappoint you, but 1 version of linux has gone through the standards track, and is fully posix 1.0 complient, and as linux is made up of freely available pd code, most versions of linux will also be posix complient.
Question of the Day #2
Phil Posted Aug 24, 2000
Go on then, Which one?
And yes I know that Linux is mostly posix compliant.
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- 1: Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 (Jun 30, 2000)
- 2: Phil (Jun 30, 2000)
- 3: Phil (Jun 30, 2000)
- 4: Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 (Jul 3, 2000)
- 5: Administrator-General (5+0+9)*3+0 (Jul 3, 2000)
- 6: Marvin, the Maniacally Depressed Robot (Jul 29, 2000)
- 7: Crescent (Jul 29, 2000)
- 8: Phil (Jul 30, 2000)
- 9: xyroth (Aug 23, 2000)
- 10: Phil (Aug 24, 2000)
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