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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!nih-csl!postman From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Subject: printer filters for /etc/printcap needed Message-ID: <1993Nov5.140257.6563@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 14:02:57 GMT Lines: 18 I just got FreeBSD up, and tried printing. A bout with lpc convinced the printer to print, once I had uncommented the example in /etc/printcap, and tried lpa rather than lpt. But! It doesn't insert \r at the ends of lines! And furthermore, continuous printing of text causes three lines of text to be lost between pages. It's a parallel printer, a Canon BJ-200. So far I'm using it in a dumb mode, which looks like about 66 lines x 80 characters. Eventually of course, I want to hitch up Ghostscript, and get it doing pretty work. Are there any decent printer filters bundled in with FreeBSD? Or how is this normally done? Should I just put together something simple in C? E-mail appreciated, thought I try to read this group. -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY