Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:17:00 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@itouch.co.nz> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help with printer setup Message-ID: <20010122111700.B67389@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <3A69C914.4070703@planetwe.com>; from drew@planetwe.com on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:21:24AM -0600 References: <3A69C914.4070703@planetwe.com>
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:21:24AM -0600, Drew Sanford wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a printer on 4.2-stable and running into some
> problems. I looked at the handbook, and figured that sensably enough,
> the first thing to do was to try lptest > lpt0 to see if everything was
> talking nicely. After a second or 5, it printed one line of the ascii
> charactor set across the top of the page (from ! to o) and then a " at
> the righthand end of the next line, then ejected that sheet of paper,
> loaded another, and sat there. The trouble shooting section of the
> handbook doesn't appear to deal with this situation.
This sounds like the common staircasing effect. You need a linefeed
converter filter for this queue. Create a script like this:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Add a \r to each line
#
awk '{ print $0,"\r"; }'
and add an entry to this script file in /etc/printcap, eg:
if=/path/to/the/script/file
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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