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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!narcisa.sax.de!not-for-mail From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printers Date: 13 Jun 1995 10:49:57 +0200 Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3rjjfl$s2m@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <3rfi45$lfv@warp.cris.com> <3rfu90$pfl@warp.cris.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <3rfu90$pfl@warp.cris.com>, George <grep@cris.com> wrote: >I uncommented the /etc/printcap entry and created /var/spool/output/lpd Please file a problem report for the missing /var/spool/output/lpd directory. This one needs to be solved. >directory and can now get readable output from my printer. I also changed the >device in the printcap from /dev/lp to /dev/lpt0 since there was no /dev/lp. /dev/lp is something like a `generic printer device'. Either rename, or make it a symlink to your actual printer. >The problem now is that it takes over an hour to print /etc/rc. Does anybody >know of a way to speed this up? Also the banner wraps around on itself even >though I added pw=80 in the printcap entry. myname.my.domain ends up looking >like mdyonmaamien.my I think you aren't much interested in the banners, either, are you? Add the :sh: flag in the printcap entry, and you'll get rid of'em. The pw=80 is totally ignored unless you're installing some sort of output filter. I've described the filter mechanism in more detail in another article yesterday. Look around for it in this newsgroup. (Btw., i hope you've got it actually as ``pw#80''. :-) Re. your slow printing. Is the port interrupt-controlled? Are you using a proper cable? (Many cheap cards or cables are broken with respect to the /ACK signal, which is used to generate the interrupt. DOS doesn't use interrupt-controlled printing, so you might not have noticed it yet.) Try to turn off interrupt-controlled printing with `lpcontrol'. If this speeds up things, either your card or your cable is bad. Anyway, by replacing either (or both), and using the interrupt-controlled driver, it will speed up considerably. -- cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)