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From: se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HP deskjet and fs#020 in printcap
Date: 28 Dec 1994 13:21:19 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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In article <3d447r$qre@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, jlr2@ix.netcom.com (John Ryan) writes:
|>
|> I have an HP deskjet plus which does linefeed instead of lf-cr
|> so I want to set CRMOD via the fs variable in /etc/printcap. Nothing
|> seems to work. Bug or ignorance?
Simply not the way to go ...
The HP printers have the very nice
feature of selectable carriage control
modes.
You want the Unix-Mode, which is
enabled by sending <ESC>&k2G (and
you seem to know that, as indicated
by the ff string in your printcap
entry:
|> lp | hp |local printer:\
|> lp=/dev/lpt0:fs#020:mx:0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
|> lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:ff=\033E\033&k2G:sh:\
|> tr=\033E:
I'm doing it this way (don't forget to make the
output filter mode 0755):
-- 8< -- cut here -- 8< -- cut here -- 8< -- cut here -- 8< -- cut here --
#
# /etc/printcap entry for HP DeskJet:
#
dj|lp|HP-DeskJet:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:if=/usr/local/lib/lpdfilters/DeskJet:\
:mx#0:sh:tr=:
-- 8< -- cut here -- 8< -- cut here -- 8< -- cut here -- 8< -- cut here --
#!/bin/sh
########################################################################
# Output Filter for HP DeskJet (/usr/local/lib/lpdfilters/DeskJet)
#
# init printer
INIT="\033E\033&k2G\c"
# reset printer
UNINIT="\033E\c"
echo -e $INIT
cat
echo -e $UNINIT
# signal success
exit 0
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The use of a filter is neccessary, if there
is going to be some auto detect feature for
printing of DVI or PostScript files ...
STefan
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