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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.fb1.fhtw-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!solid.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de!news.informatik.uni-kiel.de!news.techfak.uni-kiel.de!news From: maw@techfak.uni-kiel.d400.de (Maciej Wiatr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Printer filter file error Date: 15 Jul 1996 13:02:25 +0200 Organization: Technische Fakultaet, University of Kiel, Germany Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4sd8g1$ruk@slowmo.techfak.uni-kiel.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: slowmo.techfak.uni-kiel.de Salute, I use freeBSD with a HP DJ500C and a proper (as I think) filter file, which has woreked. Yesterday I got to know it does not work any more. As I could understand, there is an error by the execution of the filter file. I have to tell my printer to use CR+LF, when it receives LF by printf "\033&k2G", but it is not accepted. Printf (as well as cat) do not send the first character of the given string to the printer, so it cannot interprete the above string as a command. In my case the sh shell is used. Despite the error it isw possible to print text files by sending a blank space before the command line, but ps files don't work. Does anybody know the reason ? What happens with the first character ? Please HELP ! Maciej ----------------------------------------------- maw@teckfak.ini-kiel.de Maciej Wiatr macko@tusia.kiel.org +49 431 723746 -----------------------------------------------