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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> And if I exit and select option 3 (Install printer module) and then
> option 4 (Print document) I get the message 'lp1 off line' and the
> system locks up, just echoing characters from the keyboard, with no
> commands doing anything.

If your computer has one parallel port it should be lp0 not lp1.
Is your printer turned on as well as connected to the parallel port?
Does it print properly in DOS?

> Possibly it is a peculiarity of my computer, so I'll just have to
> reconcile myself to not being able to print from BL3.

Maybe you need to tell lp the address, if it is nonstandard.  I had to do 
this to get a second parallel port to work as lp1.  (It came with the MGA 
card and had to be set to a different address and IRQ than the onboard 
port).  Can you go into setup and check in BIOS what the parallel port 
address is?  Do you have it set to something other than the default?

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Sindi