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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 and HPLJ4
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Date: 23 Jan 1995 18:20:21 UTC
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Mike Criscolo <71121.3022@CompuServe.COM> writes:

>I'm having a problem getting my HP LaserJet 4L to work under FreeBSD 2.0.
>I get what looks like the beginnings of a banner page, but it's just a few
>characters, and the actual file I try to print never appears.  I'm printing
>to /dev/lpt0 (I tried /dev/lpa0, with no luck).

Quite possibly what may be happening is that you're not turning the
linefeeds into carriage-return/linefeeds, and thus the "print position"
goes ever further to the right.

>Any ideas?

If you want it to do postscript, add instructions to the printcap to
disable the banner. If you want it to do plaintext, add the stty stuff
that will make it add a CR to the LFs. If you want it to do postscript,
but it doesn't have postscript in it, then get ghostscript and use that
to raster the postscript for you.

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