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it seems unlikely that users new to FreeBSD will want to do any of
		- use a floppy
		- use DOS
	and even using a tape drive and printing aren't common first tasks

	remove this section
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put a space after the comma, did you?)</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="printing-files-from-dos">
<title>Printing Files from DOS</title>
<para>At this point you probably do not have the printer working,
so here is a way to create a file from a manual page, move it to a
floppy, and then print it from DOS. Suppose you want to read
carefully about changing permissions on files (pretty
important). You can use <command>man chmod</command> to read
about it. The command</para>
<informalexample>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>man chmod | col -b &gt; chmod.txt</userinput></screen>
</informalexample>
<para>will remove formatting codes and send the manual page to the
<filename>chmod.txt</filename> file instead of showing it on
your screen. Now put a dos-formatted diskette in your floppy
drive <filename>a</filename>, <command>su</command> to <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, and type</para>
<informalexample>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/sbin/mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt</userinput></screen>
</informalexample>
<para>to mount the floppy drive on
<filename>/mnt</filename>.</para>
<para>Now (you no longer need to be <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, and you can type
<command>exit</command> to get back to being user jack) you can
go to the directory where you created
<filename>chmod.txt</filename> and copy the file to the floppy
with:</para>
<informalexample>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cp chmod.txt /mnt</userinput></screen>
</informalexample>
<para>and use <command>ls /mnt</command> to get a directory
listing of <filename>/mnt</filename>, which should show the file
<filename>chmod.txt</filename>.</para>
<para>You might especially want to make a file from
<filename>/sbin/dmesg</filename> by typing</para>
<informalexample>
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>/sbin/dmesg &gt; dmesg.txt</userinput></screen>
</informalexample>
<para>and copying <filename>dmesg.txt</filename> to the floppy.
<command>/sbin/dmesg</command> is the boot log record, and it is
useful to understand it because it shows what FreeBSD found when
it booted up. If you ask questions on the &a.questions; or on a USENET
group&mdash;like <quote>FreeBSD is not finding my tape drive,
what do I do?</quote>&mdash;people will want to know what
<command>dmesg</command> has to say.</para>
<para>You can now unmount the floppy drive (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>) to get the
disk out with</para>
<informalexample>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/sbin/umount /mnt</userinput></screen>
</informalexample>
<para>and reboot to go to DOS. Copy these files to a DOS
directory, call them up with DOS EDIT, &windows; Notepad or
Wordpad, or a word processor, make a minor change so the file
has to be saved, and print as you normally would from DOS or
Windows. Hope it works! Manual pages come out best if printed
with the DOS <command>print</command> command. (Copying files
from FreeBSD to a mounted DOS partition is in some cases still a
little risky.)</para>
<para>Getting the printer printing from FreeBSD involves creating
an appropriate entry in <filename>/etc/printcap</filename> and
creating a matching spool directory in
<filename>/var/spool/output</filename>. If your printer is on
<hardware>lpt0</hardware> (what DOS calls
<hardware>LPT1</hardware>), you may only need to go to
<filename>/var/spool/output</filename> and (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>) create the
directory <filename>lpd</filename> by typing: <command>mkdir
lpd</command>, if it does not already exist. Then the printer
should respond if it is turned on when the system is booted, and
<command>lp</command> or <command>lpr</command> should send a
file to the printer. Whether or not the file actually prints
depends on configuring it, which is covered in the <link xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/index.html">FreeBSD
handbook.</link></para>
</sect1>
<sect1 xml:id="other-useful-commands">
<title>Other Useful Commands</title>