Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 19:47:09 +0200 From: "J.M.W. Kooijman" <kooijman@dutibe.twi.tudelft.nl> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: kooijman@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl Subject: printer problem Message-ID: <199508241747.TAA13921@dutibe.twi.tudelft.nl>
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I recently installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my new Pentium system, but now I seem to be unable to get it to co-operate properly with my old NEC LC866+ printer. The problem is that only the first line or so of a file gets printed. First of all, the printer works fine under dos, and worked fine under SCO Xenix, the OS I used previously. So it probably is not a hardware problem, or unixphobia. The printer uses the HP laserjet+ command set. I therefore put an initialization string of HP code (cannibalized from the SCO Xenix lj interfacefile) at the front of a simple text file, and then tried cat myfile > /dev/lpt0 (apparently it has to be lpt0; lp0, as in the default printcap file, does not work). The printer then starts up and prints the first and second lines of the text (the second line is severely shifted). After this the D(ownload) indicator keeps on blinking like mad, but this may simply be caused by the fact that the dataline stays high. Needless to say, if I put myfile through lpr, I get the same result. I don't think it is a printspooler problem, though. My impression is that some buffer is not properly flushed. If I put two lpr calls in short succession into the queue of different files, I sometimes manage to get different lines into the output (from the single attempts, I mean). However, I am not to sure about the reproduceability of this effect. I would very much appreciate some help on this problem. It is probably not a bug, but something stupid I do (at least I hope it is that simple). Finally, are any of the outputfilter files, mentioned in connection with lpr anywhere in the distribution? I couldn't find any, but maybe I am looking in the wrong places. Thanking you very much in anticipation. Joe Kooijman kooijman@dutibe.twi.tudelft.nl
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