Verify that you actually have a problem before you
look for solutions that you might not need.
In this chapter, you??™ll learn how to do the following:
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Configure line printers (those used with UNIX)
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Monitor memory
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Obtain general system information
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Use Notepad for various tasks
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Manage power settings
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Perform an unattended driver installation
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Manage Plug and Play settings
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MANAGING OTHER HARDWARE
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Print from the command line
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Manage the system time
Working with Line Printers
Unless you??™re working with an older mainframe or UNIX setup, you probably won??™t ever run into
a line printer. Line printer technology is outdated and not used all that often today. Today??™s modern
equivalent isn??™t even a line printer; it??™s more likely a high-speed printer configured to provide
the equivalent services. Of course, this might cause you to ask why there??™s a line printer topic in this
chapter. It turns out that setting up a line printer is one of the ways you can share your printer (network
or local) with a Linux machine. In fact, this technology is so embedded that some vendors like
Hewlett-Packard provide print servers to provide Line Printer Daemon (LPD) services (see
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