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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Deskjet
Date: 27 Dec 93 02:18:29
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In-reply-to: jdough@sinkhole.unf.edu's message of Mon, 27 Dec 1993 21:11:06 GMT

In article <1993Dec27.211106.26717@sinkhole.unf.edu> jdough@sinkhole.unf.edu (Joseph Dougherty) writes:

   [ Article crossposted from comp.unix.bsd ]
   [ Author was Joseph Dougherty ]
   [ Posted on Mon, 27 Dec 1993 21:06:41 GMT ]


	   I have just installed FreeBSD 1.0 from the new DiscNET CDROM. The
   installation was tricky, but it's there.
	   However, I'm experienceing a problem I had previously under Linux.
   When I pipe straight text to my HP Deskjet 500 on paralleldevice
   /dev/lpa0, the printer prints one line of text, then spits out numerous
   blank pages before quitting. Someone once mailed me a script file that set
   up some kind of filter that made this work correctly, but it's long been lost.
   If anyone has a clue as to how to fix this, I'd appreciate some e-mail.
	   Thanks.


How about posting replies rather than emailing them - I'm sure there
are lots of people out there that need to know this (especially me !).

Brian.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>