[ale] goofy printing problem

[c_fowler at hotmail.com]

It may be a problem with /etc/hosts.lpd on blip.salug.org.

It could also be lpd is not running on blip.salug.org

Try this  telnet blip.salug.org 515 and see if network printing services is okay
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Thakns,
Christopher Fowler
Computone Corporation

On 23-Jul-97 Josh Murrah wrote:
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>Hi all.  First I'd like to say that this should take about 2 seconds for
>somebody to answer, because I know it's GOT to be an easy problem for some
>of you, but it's driving me nuts.  I'm using Slackware 3.2, and I'm trying
>to get my printer configured for lpr.  I've searched through the
>permissions file for lpr, the lpd.conf file, services, inetd.conf, etc.
>and I can't figure waht I'm doing wrong.  Here's the error : 
>
>cannot open connection to `lp at blip.salug.org' - Connection refused
>
>Again, sorry for lowering the intelligence a notch, and thanks in advance.
>
>Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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Date: 23-Jul-97
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