From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 14:03:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA09988 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09983 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id RAA21650; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:05:35 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199604252105.RAA21650@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Net connected printer To: CombsSF@salem.ge.com Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:05:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: from "Stephen F. Combs" at Apr 25, 96 01:30:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I have to agree, We've got over a hundred JetDirect equiped HP Laserjets > which ALL have IP addresses and are used all the time with lpr/lpd. In > fact our VMS access to these printers is via lpr/lpd (TGV Multinet). We > even (with a FreeBSD box in-between, 'cuz of IBM's decision to send the > data file BEFORE sending the control file) use them to print from a series > of IBM mainframes scattered all over the world! > > We also use Castille Lanpress boxes for printers which won't/don't accept > a JetDirect (Genecom,etc line-printers). Speaking of such.. I am using the output filter program suggested in the handbook. I have had to make some local modifications to this program to handle some of the pecularities of our site. One of these is adding a sleep line at the end of the program so that all of the data makes it to the port. Has anyone else dealt with these issues? -branson Ummm... one more thing.. I have noticed that using this script and FreeBSD's lpd implimentation adds a linefeed to the end of my files. It seems to be comming from lpd. I have defined the ff char to be empty and the problem goes away.. I could not find this in the documentation. --