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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: printcap for serial printer Date: 13 Jan 1994 17:21:17 +0100 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2h3sdt$ief@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Folks, the manual for printcap says there's nifty tty flags you can set and unset by some combination of printcap entries if the device specified is a tty. What is doesn't say is how to use these flags. Would someone in the know please tell me how to make an entry for a printer that is supposed to be 8N1 and using modem control lines, not XON/XOFF. Thanks, Bernard