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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:09:04 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        steinber@SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Joseph Steinberg)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PLEASE help -- lpr
Message-ID:  <199508021009.MAA13696@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950730090825.17972A-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> from "Joseph Steinberg" at Jul 30, 95 09:10:01 am

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> I have been trying for about a month to get lpr to work on my system. 
> I can cat a ps file directly to /dev/lpt0 and it prints -- but lpr gives 
> me blank pages.
> All I am asking for is for someone to send me a working printcap file for 
> a psotscript printer. I have an HP-4 with postscript added. 
> There has to be someone out there who is using a PS printer. Please send 
> me a copy of your /etc/printcap file.


Could it be that you need a filter that converts plain <lf> (unix style
EOL) to <cr><lf> in case you're printing ascii files? 

I had this problem with a HP laserjetIII. I've written a litte C program
that inserted a CR everytime a LF was found and made that to an entry in
/etc/printcap:

      if=/usr/local/bin/lpf

> Thanks.


> JS
> 
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0:
Tue Jul 18 14:49:19 MET DST 1995     kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de:
/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS  i386



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