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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printer help
Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:56:53 GMT
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In article <3363DB37.2781E494@qnet.com>,
Duane Ellison <duane@qnet.com> writes:
> I really hate to ask this but I have not been able to get this darn
> thing to work correctly. Probably because I am in a time crunch on a
> development cycle.
>
> I have an HP DeskJet 320 and I am have been unable to setup printing on
> it. I attempted to follow the handbook information. I can get it to
> print one line fro the lpttest and then the printer freaks out.
>
> My goal here is to be able to print out the source code that I am
> working on without having to move it to a another box to print. I know
> that I must be missing something simple here and my mind is probably in
> the wrong place (like in all of the 4.4BSD PROGRAMMER'S MANUALS). Any
> help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or pushes into the right direction.
You should really post more info (like what your current printcap
entry looks like).
I suspect the problem is a CR-LF one. You need to either put the
printer into "accept CR as CR-LF" or get the unix box to send
CR-LF instead of CR. Printers are usually changed by playing with
dip-switches. The latter can be fixed by having an output filter
in printcap:
:of=/usr/local/sbin/addlf:
and addlf saying:
#! /bin/sh
sed 's/$/^M/'
Note, the ^M is a *real* ^M (^V^M if you're typing in vi).
> Duane...
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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