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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!tmonroe From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU () Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Printing under FreeBSD 1.5.1.1 Date: 13 Aug 1994 21:16:53 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 27 Message-ID: <32jd85$rct@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <32hijhINNgab@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu In article <32hijhINNgab@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>, Markus Meister <h5h1@rick.cs.ubc.ca> wrote: >Both ways it prints, but extremely slowly.. the printer only prints a few >characters at a time... is this because my computer isn't very fast >(a DX2-66, as opposed to a real unix workstation), and FreeBSD just doesn't >give the printing a lot of attention, or is something set up wrong? To take something from the _Unix_System_Administrator's_Handbook by Nemeth, Snyder, and Seebass: "The printing facilities provided by BSD are somewhat mediocre. They allow only simple operations, are hard to maintain, and sometimes just plain don't work right. The saving grace of the BSD printing model is that it extends well to large networks, allowing many computers to share printers." page 174 You can probably tell from this that printing under any BSD-derived OS is going to be a pain. Ask me, I know. My printer, an HP DeskJet 500, won't work properly at all so I have given up on trying to print under BSD. If I could somehow change LF to CR-LF, it MIGHT actually work right when I cat > /dev/lpt0. Now, when it gets to the 80th column, it gets confused and stops. Maybe I should go back to a daisy wheel...