On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, BWS - Offwhite wrote:

> I have tried what you suggested and ran the following commands...
> 
> cd /etc/
> lp -d laser printcap
> 
> That results in a page where the text does not show up after the first two
> because the carriage return characters are not in that file.  I imagine it
> would like a filter in there, but at least I know it can print now.
> 
> Thanks for the help so far.
> 
> Now I would like to get the Unix/Netatalk print spooler to show up in the
> MacOS chooser.  What do I need to do?

Your papd.conf should look like:

laser:\
        :pr=|/usr/bin/lp -d laser:

This creates a printer in the default zone named "laser".  It calls the
"lp" program to print.  You may need to change the path to "lp".

        Andy

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