From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 18:50:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA13945 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 18:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.hiwaay.net (max20-79.HiWAAY.net [208.147.153.79]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA13940 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 18:50:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.hiwaay.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA08958; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:49:42 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199703280249.UAA08958@nexgen.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC cc: mjanosi@numacorp.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Network printing In-reply-to: Message from Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:30:37 MST." <199703272330.QAA22791@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:49:40 -0600 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > BTW, you don't need to worry about converting text to postscript for > your HP printer; they all default to working like a standard HP printer > until they see something that looks like a postscript job. All of them I've tripped upon lately insist on \r\n line termination. For now I simply remember to push my non-PS print jobs thru a2ps. Eventually I'll do it right and rig a filter to either prefix with a on plain text or always convert to PS. Don't much care for the default text 12-point Courier lined up right at the left edge of the page. Its Postscript and a2ps for me. Found a utility called "rlpr" which implements an lpr/lpd pipe direct to the printer. Its quite useful for a fake local printer "if:" filter script to send the job on to the real printer. The other solution is to loop your job back thru the lpd system pointed toward a remote printer entry. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.