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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing problems
Date: 27 May 1996 11:00:27 GMT
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digdon@yohoho.org (Mike Digdon) wrote:

> Lpr/lpd is behaving very strangely for me.  When booted into DOS mode, my
> printer prints normally (ie: fast).  However, when printing using lpr, my
> printer prints a line, pauses anywhere from 3 to 10 seconds and then prints
> the next line.

I thought this is in the handbook or FAQ...

Your printer/cable/printer card doesn't handle the /ACK signal right,
so the printer doesn't generate interrupts.  You'll have to fix the
hardware, or revert the printer to polled mode (higher CPU load),
using lptcontrol(8).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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