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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printcap woes! Date: 23 Feb 1996 23:45:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4gljio$47c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ghtrq$ffj@comet.magicnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dpb@magicnet.net (Dan Benjamin) writes: > When I do a lptest > /dev/lpt0, I get one line of text, no breaks, and > three blank pages. The HP doesn't like your sole linefeed at the end of a (unix) line. You gotta convert it into a carriage return-linefeed sequence. This is usually done by a filter in the printspooler, and it must not be done for none-text files (e.g. PCL image files). The simplest (though not entirely correct) such filter is: #!/bin/sh exec sed -e 's/$/ (Note the hard carriage return in the replacement pattern. Your newsreader might incorrectly display it.) > When I do a lptest 20 5 lpr -Php (or just lpr) I get an error: > lpr: no lp found Please, read section 7 of the handbook, titled ``Printing'', again. I've verified that it also appeared in FreeBSD 2.1R. You have to setup an /etc/printcap file in order to use the spooler. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)