From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 9:35:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C2614C04 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:35:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12778; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 04:05:02 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991110123426.57213@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:34:26 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printer problems yet again (was: Mystery revisited) Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991110103625.08184@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Ariel Burbaickij on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 05:26:55PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 17:26:55 +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 16:21:26 +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: >>> So all this gory details provided about all relevant files do you hope >>> we will master the problem with man pages on my printer printed correctly? >>> If the hope is present let me know how :)) then. >>> >>> any futher details will be surely provided on your demand >> >> I see no details whatsoever. What's all this about? > > Well i run canon bj200 printer under fbsd 3.2-rel Ah, it's you again. You're really not making it easy for us. > i use apsfilter from ports as filter to communicate with it > (i know that i use lpd to communicate with printer but i > hope you understood what i mean ,do not beat me) One thing at a time. Does it work with lpd? > My /etc/printcap was estimated as sane by some members of the list > but i send it once more just to be safe. > Paper used is a4 format. > Yet the problem: i get reverse staircase effect while trying > to print out man pages(with reverse staircases i mean that > staircase starts on the left margin of the paper after printing > just 1 or 2 letter(s). > So the questions are:Does any remedy for this problem exist? First we need to find the cause. What happens if you run this? $ lptest | lpr If you get an error message, please include the exact text. > What is the format man pages use? groff mandoc macros. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message