On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:30:32AM -0500, Chris Schumann wrote: > Hey guys, > > I tried changing permissions on /dev/lp0 to a+wr and > doing "echo > /dev/lp0", but it didn't work. > "echo > file" puts just a newline in file. One byte. Assuming it found the parallel port, and you have the driver loaded (very likely on a default RH 9 install, you can check with dmesg |grep lp) echo -n foo > /dev/lp0 should work, the -n tells echo not to send a newline (\n) man echo -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list