On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 15:09, Warren Block wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2002, Chip Wiegand wrote:
> 
> > I have a printer connected to my fbsd box, and another connected to a
> > winblows box. the fbsd printer has crapped out on me and has 9 print
> > jobs waiting in the queue. is it possible to move those jobs from
> > printer queue lp to printer queue eps? 
> 
> Dunno if there's an automatic way to do it, but you can certainly do it
> by hand.  The print files are stored in the spool directory you've
> specified in /etc/printcap.  Data files start with dfA.
> 
> So cd into your spool directory, and use lpr to print the files to the
> new queue:
> 
> cd /var/spool/output/lpd/lp
> lpr -Peps dfA*
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Thanks, that works great, added it to my fbsd notebook of stuff not
found in the published books.

Regards,
Chip Wiegand
www.wiegand.org
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