From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 17:51:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.cairodurham.org (zeus.cairodurham.org [209.23.60.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9545537B417 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:51:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 78696 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2001 15:04:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Nov 2001 15:04:38 -0000 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:04:38 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Knichel X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Epson DFX 500+ & Form Feed Message-ID: <20011117095706.R78652-100000@zeus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I am not an expert user and am fairly n00b to BSD...Please be gentle. I have an Epson DFX 500+ (dot matrix) printer attached to our network via rj45. It has an IP address. I also have a server set up on our lan that my programming students connect to via ssh to write code. I have been trying to get my printer working with FreeBSD for some time now and am almost there. I can finally print to it, but each new print job starts where the previous left off. So, here is what I have done so far... my /etc/printcap file... lp|dfx:\ :rm=dfx:rp=lpb:sd=/var/spool/dfx: :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple: :lf=/var/log/dfx.log my /usr/local/libexec/if-simple file... As per archive suggestion #!/bin/sh /bin/cat && printf "\f" && exit 0 exit 2 I can print fine, but I want a form feed after each job. Can anybody help? PS: It may be necessary to reply directly to me (knichel@cairodurham.org). The last time I tried to subscribe to this list, i never got any of the emails from the list. My net admin said he fixed the DNS issue, but I am not positive. -- Mike Knichel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message