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X N I C - E N E T / T R I N G C o n f i g u r a t i o n G u i d e
Addition or
Deletion of
Printers on
the Host
Network
Printers
Adding or Deleting Printers
1
Go to the
xrx
directory on the hard disk of your workstation.
2
Enter:
# cd ./xrx
(this is an example of
using a relative path to
the xrx directory)
# ./enstall -m
(this will start the
program)
3
When asked to enter the number corresponding to the file
type for this printer:
1) Plain text (ASCII)
2) PASSTHRU.
For PCL, Postscript, HPGL or graphic image files, you can
define one type of printer (queue) on your host such as
PASSTHRU (selection 2) to handle all the 3 types of files.
For Plain text (ASCII) files, you may choose to do either of
the following:
Create a printer (queue) to handle the text files (selection 1)
Edit the
/etc/printcap
file by setting the
xrx_text
variable to
enable
, and then use the PASSTHRU queue as a common
queue to also handle the text files.
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