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[hpoj-devel] Installation to Debian2.2 (potato) for hpoj 600 - printd - HELP?

[Soren A. <so...@wo...>]

Greetings List,

I am a new user of the hpoj software which I built from source yesterday.
Thanks for developing this software.

I have used ptal-mlcd and associated utilities to demonstrate to myself that
I can connect to and print simple jobs to my OfficeJet 6xx parallel-port
machine. But I am struglling greatly with translating the documentation for
the print daemon, which appears to be based on a RedHat installation with
its bsd-style init routines (???) to a sysvinit style as used in recent
Debian GNU/Linux systems. Folks on the #Debian channel at irc.debian.org
were only moderately helpful as they themselves were unclear about what it
is that needs to be done.

If there is anyone who has set up the print daemon on Debian and knows what
I need to do with the /etc/init.d and all that mess (it appears that I have
to become a Deep Linux Wizard to get this set up???) could you please offer
me your recipie or advice. I have already invested so  much time in this, I
would offer to write up something to add to the package documentation if my
ensuing results seem useful to recount to others.

Thank you,
   Soren Andersen

Re: [hpoj-devel] Installation to Debian2.2 (potato) for hpoj 600 - printd - HELP?

[Bob P. <bpa...@cs...>]

> If there is anyone who has set up the print daemon on Debian and knows what
> I need to do with the /etc/init.d and all that mess (it appears that I have
> to become a Deep Linux Wizard to get this set up???) could you please offer
> me your recipie or advice. I have already invested so  much time in this, I
> would offer to write up something to add to the package documentation if my
> ensuing results seem useful to recount to others.

I know that felling all to well, right or wrong this is what I did, and it 
works for me:

I put these two lines near the top of /etc/rc.d/rc.local in my Mandrake 8.0 
system:

/usr/local/sbin/ptal-mlcd par:hpoj -device /dev/lp0&
/usr/local/sbin/ptal-printd mlc:par:hpoj -like /dev/lp0&
 
Where I refer to my HP710 as 'hpoj', change it to what ever suites you.

Your next problem is figuring out your print ques.  LPD or CUPS?
I spent almost a sold week reading documentation before getting this stuff to 
work.

Windows is in no danger as long as things are this hard to set up in Linux 
land.