lp refuses to work.

[edj]

On Sat July 27 2002 06:07 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote:

Thanks, but lpr doesn't work either.  In fact, while lp gives a "request 
id'" lpr doesn't do anything - no output at all.  Odd thing is that in 
Abiword, the print command uses lpr and it prints without a hitch.  The 
only diff I can think of is that Abiword uses it own fonts.  I don't know 
if that's relevant or not.  It's just something of a pain to have to fire 
up Abiword just to print a short little script or something.

-- 
Ed Jabbour

>edj spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > Running CUPS 1.1.10.  Files will print under any editor or processor.
> > However, when I "lp file.txt" at the console, nothing prints, though I
> > do get:
> >
> > lp att.txt
> > request id is ps1-364 (1 file(s))
> >
> > lpq says printer is idle.  Same result if I try "lp -d ps1 att.txt". 
> > "cat att.txt > /dev/lp0"  works,  though very slowly.  Any advice on
> > what to look at to solve this appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> happened to me once. try using lpr instead of lp... dunno why, but it
> fixed my problem