Enabling A Network Connection To The Iris Workstation - Silicon Graphics IRIS Workstation User Manual

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3. Link the device file for the printer port to /dev/lp. For example, to
link the device file for
4. Make the printer port writable to every user.
5. If the printer has XON/XOFF capabilities, initialize the port with
stty. See stty(1). For example,
This line should then be added to the system startup file /etc/rc.
6. init must be informed of the change to the /etc/inittab file.
This causes init to read /etc/inittab and enable a port for the line
printer.
7. Test the line printer.

6.11 Enabling a Network Connection to the IRIS Workstation

The IRIS Workstation can be connected to an Ethernet local area network.
1. See Section 4.7 for instructions on how to physically connect the
IRIS Workstation to an Ethernet local area network network.
2. Edit the file /etc/inittab. Each line corresponds to a device file in /dev
and contains four fields separated by colons. See Table 6-2 for a list
of the correspondences between device files and physical ports.
Find the line for the selected port and delete the x in the second
field. See inittab(4) for more information.
3. init must be informed of the change to the /etc/inittab file.
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Figure 6-6: Sample /etc/ttytype File
Port 3
# ln /dev/ttyd3 /dev/lp
# chmod 666 /dev/lp
# (stty -ixon ; sleep 100000) < /dev/lp
$ /etc/telinit -q
# cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lp
# lpr /etc/passwd
# pr -f -l66 /etc/rc | lpr
systty
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