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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: PostScript printer to /dev/tty01
Date: 24 Feb 1995 13:18:59 +0100
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Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>: I have a PostScript printer attached to /dev/tty01.
>: I want to test it. So I tried
>: cat name-of-a-PS-file > /dev/tty01
>: I thought it should work. But it didn't. Am I wrong?
...
>This should work.... I think.
>make sure that both ends have the same bits/parity - ie 8bits no parity one
>stop bit. You probably want to work with ttyi01 to set these (man sio).
And make sure that either your cabling fakes the carrier or you've set
the device into `clocal' (i.e., non-modem) mode, preferrably via
ttyi01, too.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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