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Peter Expolio wrote:
>
> if you modify printcap, you need to kill and restart the 
> daemon in order for the modifications to be interpreted:
> 
> ps | grep lpd
> kill [pid]

Or you can simply do:
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kill `pidof lpd`
----------------

> lpd is in one of my rc.d files

I don't start lpd until I actually want to print.  
Then I run the following script:
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for i in parport parport_pc lp
  do insmod $i
done
lpd
------------------------------
It installs the necessary modules and starts lpd.  

> to find out whether to use lp0 or lp1 or lp?, try lsmod, that'll 
> give you a list of the loaded modules and what they're using). 

Unfortunately lsmod doesn't indicate precisely which lp interface 
is used.  You can get that by doing the following:
---------------
dmesg | grep lp
---------------

>  filter < filename.ps > /dev/lp0

That's a very useful tip.  Thank you for suggesting it.

> export to .doc with Abiword or to .rtf with Ted (although 
> Abiword does that quite well, too).

My wife uses Word at work and has been preparing some documents
here on BL2.  For a while, she was using Ted (.rtf) and is now
using AbiWord.  The Ted .rtf files did not always display correctly
in Word -- minor reformatting was sometimes required.  However,
the AbiWord documents (both .rtf and .doc) always display perfectly 
in Word.

I strongly recommend AbiWord (it even works on BL1).

> the Printing- and Printing-Usage-HOWTOS (http://www.tldp.org) 
> are fairly useful. 

I agree.  They are also available on Slackware CDroms 
in the /docs/Linux_HOWTO directory.

Cheers,
Steven