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From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas)
Subject: Re: Can't get printer to work correctly
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Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 13:09:31 GMT
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Stan (stan@tejon.gps.caltech.edu) wrote:
: In article <3plcn3$e68@agate.berkeley.edu>, geordan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario) writes:
: >
: [printer problem deleted]
:
: I have a sort-of-related printer setup question. I have an HP DeskJet 500
: hooked up to the lpt0 port on my Freebsd system, and when I print
: something, it
: looks
: like
: this.
:
: It is apparently sending a linefeed, but no carriage return at the end of
: each line. I looked at the man page for printcap, but it was singularly
: unilluminating. Is there some simple switch for printcap that will tell it
: to send a <cr> with the <lf>?
:
If the printer is directly attached to your computer (or you have control
over the one that is), you may want to consider installing "APS" as an
input filter. This is using a tablesaw when you only need a nailfile,
since APS does much more than you need, but consider it. I make use of
the "raw" device to fix the exact same problem you have (but on an HP
LaserJet III). Below is a rather old announcement:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
A P S F I L T E R V 4.8 - "Announcement in USENET"
------------------------------------------------------------
copyright Andreas Klemm 1993, 1994
andreas@knobel.gun.de
---------------------------------------
co-author Thomas Bueschgens
sledge@hammer.oche.de
---------------------------
WHAT IS APSFILTER
=================
APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD alike
printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work
when printing different file types no matter if compressed or not !!!
Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported
by the public domain postscript emulator "ghostscript" (gs), to
print postscript files automatically !
With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 it's now possible to print
*compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!!
The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system.
o Supported packers:
GZIP, PACK, COMPRESS, FREEZE/MELT
o Supported file types:
Postscript
TeX DVI
Ascii
Data (PCL,...)
GIFF
TIFF
Sun Rasterfiles
FIG
PNM (pbmplus)
Unix Platforms, that are able to run apsfilter flawlessly
=========================================================
- FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
- SUN SPARCSTATIONS, Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS4)
- some (not all) Linux Distributions
Slackware V 1.1
Slackware 2.0.0 (problems with permissions in spooldir)
LST-1.8 (minor problem, incomplete /etc/magic file)
- and surely all commercial Unix Systems,
that run a BSD 4.X operating system
==========================================================
These are the sites, where apsfilter versions can be found
==========================================================
(1) This ftp server will also contain beta releases if we are
currently on the way to a new release
ftp server: ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
directory : pub/Linux/local/packages/APS
(2) Here we'll put only final releases
ftp server : ftp.Germany.EU.net
directory : pub/os/Linux/Local.EUnet/People/akl
directory : pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet
ftp the newest release from there. The current naming scheme for
apsfilter releases is: aps-Release.tgz
Beta versions contain the letter B in the version number and
have mostly a number with three digits.
Get apsfilter via ftp mail:
==========================
File: aps-48.tgz Size: ~200K
mail archive-server@germany.eu.net
Subject: <none>
uuencode
send os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-48.tgz
quit
Get apsfilter via ftp:
======================
ftp ftp.Germany.EU.Net
login: ftp
password: -yourname@yourhost.yourdomain
binary
hash
get /pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-48.tgz
quit
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