help with printing

Michael bsd4me at cableone.net
Fri Jun 6 10:32:48 PDT 2008


On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:32:55PM -0600, Michael wrote:
> 
> Is there a good site for setting up/learning lpr/lpd for a printer on OpenBSD? 
> I've never used lpr for printing but need to print some email every so often on this machine.
> I enabled the lp section in /etc/printcap, set localhost under /etc/hosts.equiv, tried reading man pages for lpd, but guess it's way over my head. 
> I'm just trying to get my HP DJ870 setup to print email with mutt. 
> I'm running 4.3
> 
> Will the FreeBSD pages work with setting the printer up for OpenBSD? 
> 
> Thanks.
> Mike

I just saw that I didn't make myself totally clear in original post:(
I'm using mutt for email on this machine.
I just tried installing muttprint, but apparently uses "make" from linux? It wouldn't build for me because of the -C switch for langinfo. 
Apsfilter printed out a nice test page, but so far, that's it. Won't print a file or email with mutt.
I only have 6 gig for 4.3 on this computer, so was hoping not to install a bunch of extra programs, but may have to. I'm just trying to print a few files per week.

I really appreciate the time and help guys.

Mike


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