[wellylug] Epson printer partial success

[John Durham]

Of course, obvious you meant that.
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:35 +1200, David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, John Durham wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:54 +1200, Simon Antliff wrote:
> >> What does
> >> $ echo "Hello World" | lpr
> >> do?
> > When entered at the root terminal it replies:
> > $: command not found
> 
> The '$' is a prompt - what Simon wanted you to type is:
> 
> ###echo "Hello World" | lpr###  omitting the '###' characters, when you 
> see the '$' prompt.
> 
> Whenever you see a line starting with $ or # (or even > ) then this 
> usually means the shell prompt. You don't type this. Hope this makes more 
> sense now.
> 
> -- 
> David.
> 
>