From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 14:20:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0BC37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9676243EA3 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id gAEMKZK5015319 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:20:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H5L7EA00.5K2 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:20:34 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD420F9.5060108@mac.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:17:29 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021107 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter) References: <3DD404AB.7060706@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG paul beard wrote: > > > I've got the paper handbook 3/e open here and it gets me tantalizingly > close. If I do anything to lpr (kill it or dequeue an job with lprm) the > printer does it's paper-feeding dance. > > Still missing something, though. > and as it turns out Windows can't do anything with it either: as far as I could tell, it never sent anything to the serial port and I've gotten closer than that with FreeBSD. I may have to just give it up. Seems a shame since it worked so well in the past. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message