Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:57:21 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <garya@ics.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stty -- not Message-ID: <31A40C51.4BBF@ics.com> References: <199605230631.AAA07373@rover.village.org>
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> I'm not sure what the right and proper way to do this is, but I have a > printcap entry: ... > where addcr does the following: > > #!/bin/sh > sed -e 's/$/^M/' > echo ^L > > (the two character sequences above ^M, etc are really the actual > control characters). > > I then print lpr -Plc xxx to print something that isn't raw bits for > my printer. The ps entry is so I can print postscript files directly > on my non-postscript printer with the aid of gs. I lost my psfilt > program in the last great disk crash, but it was a simple hack of > gsbj. Since I use aladdin gs, I get free pdf printing too :-). > > A kludge I know, but it even worked when I had the LA-50 hooked up to > the machine, and that was a serial printer. I just let lpd open the > LA-50 in raw mode and dealt with the problem elsewhere. > > Pointers to the right way to do this would be accepted joyfully. I thought of doing that as well, but since the dang thing is *supposed* to work by tweaking the opost | onlcr bits, that seemed like the right way to do it. I figured since those bits have been in there working for years they couldn't possibly be broken (I may still be doing something wrong... At this point I can kludge it to work using stty or a filter; I guess it's time for some debugging. -- Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)
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