Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 19:33:43 -0800 (PST) From: Stranger Bone <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: elimating the staircase problem on an HP DeskJet 400 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970201192837.687A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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Hi there, So I hooked up my new HP DeskJet 400 according to the handbook, but it has the staircase problem that the handbook describes, meaning that text prints a line and then when it's time for the next line it doesn't do a CR, see? The handbook describes how to fix this for certain higher-end HP printers, but not for the kind I have. I tried installing this as my if: #!/bin/sh # # if-simple - Simple text input filter for lpd # Installed in /usr/local/libexec/if-simple # # Simply copies stdin to stdout. Ignores all filter arguments. /usr/bin/tr "[\010]" "[\010\013]" && exit 0 exit 2 And several variations on it, but all I got was either nothing at all (the printer would feed the paper through but not print anything) or it would print a single line and no more. I'm not entirely sure I've got the tr syntax right, either. So if anyone can help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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