From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 7: 6:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86ED157BA for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:04:08 +0200 Received: from sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.133]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 11b2UF-0002Mf-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:01:07 +0200 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03046 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:05:28 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:05:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun33 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: troubles with installing printer under FreeBSD Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hullo mail with symillar content was sent to kelly@plutotech.com,person ,who has wriiten the Chapter 7 of handbook of fbsd but he was not willing /able to answer so I appeal on you :)) printer used was Canon bjc 250 connected on /dev/lpt0 (parallel printer) os used was fbsd in release 3.2 so i got staircase effect,as you might guess All remedies suggested in handbook were: to play with dip-switches on printer ( i have not any) to set some flags for serial printer to use suggested script hpi Obviously,nothing can be applied in my case so the first question is: I)does anyone know the escape sequencs for Canon bjc 250 that force printer to treat LP as LR+CR the second question has to do with lack of information of settings for the lpd daemon,in handbook in chapter / at least nothing is said about expected settings,flags and so on II) How should the programm /usr/sbin/lpd be set (expected to be set) the third question is about apsfilter it was said many good things about this programm(it was advertised as almost panacea) i am not famillar with this programm . i tried to install it and i even brought it so far that queue coulbe be enabled,but lpq(1) gave following response back: "queue enabled ,waiting for printer(probably offilne?)it was surely on-line ,though.so the third question: III)what is the driving idea behind apsfilter,how should it be installed,what parameters should i type in the installation mask? how should it be used? Thank you in advance Yours sincerly Ariel Burbaickij To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message