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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak!brian 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 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Dec27021829@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <1993Dec27.211106.26717@sinkhole.unf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk 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. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>