From: smithc@lars.acc.stolaf.edu (Christopher A. Smith) Subject: [Q] Printer Description File Errors???? Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 00:56:28 GMT
About a week ago I installed the printing software on my linux system,
and everything worked fine up until yesterday when all of a sudden the
following error message started popping up: "lpr: cannot open printer
description file". For starters, what *is* the printer description
file? Is that the printcap file? That hasn't been changed since it was
installed and modified to work, which it did. All the files and
directories -- the administrative file, the spool directory, the
Postscript converter (nenscript 1.13++ from sunsite) -- listed within
the printcap file are still intact.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Christopher A. Smith
Consultant, Booz*Allen & Hamilton Inc.
Technology Center (ISSG/ADS), Vienna, VA
Internet: smithc@stolaf.edu