Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:54:29 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@itouch.co.nz> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with printer setup Message-ID: <14955.62789.137843.947947@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <21453008@toto.iv>
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@itouch.co.nz> types:
> 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
You can also install the magicfilter port, which has a "text" filter
which takes care of this, among other things.
<mike
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