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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Subject: Re: problems with lpr and HP DeskJet: LF==> CR+LF ??? Message-ID: <1993May21.135041.20862@cm.cf.ac.uk> Keywords: HP DeskJet printing lpr filter Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: /usr/local/lib/rn/organisation References: <2BFBEBCA.3881@news.service.uci.edu> <3501@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 13:50:40 +0000 Lines: 22 In article <3501@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> ats@bsd386.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) writes: >In article <2BFBEBCA.3881@news.service.uci.edu> jstern@eclectic.ss.uci.edu writes: >>:ty=nl: in the printcap, but this doesn't work. I have even > >I don't find a "ty" capability for printcap. > >> >>:ld=\E\100\038\107\050\071: > >Also, there is no "ld" capability documented in printcap. When I last looked into this, for someone else who needed a printer on the serial line, it didn't look as though lpd could handle setting up the serial line from printcap settings. To drive something like a deskjet you need a lpd with the capabilities that SUN provide otherwise you'll just get garbage. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk