Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 23:33:04 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk config problem Message-ID: <199412272233.XAA28892@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <9412272140.AA08469@borris.khoros.unm.edu> from "Steven Jorgensen" at Dec 27, 94 02:40:27 pm
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> 3. Finally, I'm trying to set up my printcap to print to my Deskjet
> 560c printer. I don't have my printcap entry available right
> now, but I'm pretty sure it's set up correct (I had an example to
> work from.) The problem is that when I lpr a file, takes the
> file does nothing. No error is printed in the printer log, and
> no error is given to stderr. I'm using the apsfilter script to
> preprocess the file for my printer, and I suspect that may be
> the problem. However, when I send a file to this script
> by itself, and redirect the output to my parallel port device,
> it seems to print just fine. Any ideas what I am doing
> wrong? If you'd like to see the printcap, I'll email it
> tonight when I get home.
I know some answers for that part :-). apsfilter-1.11 doesn't work
out of the box for FreeBSD-2.0 in the moment. First thing to change
is the ECHO=echo line to a ECHO=printf line.
Second thing, search for the calls of "pr". It uses the "-f" in these
calls, but the FreeBSD 2.0 pr only knows a "-F" flag instead. And the
last is is the "-o $INDENT". If you don't need it trhow it simply
out of apsfilter. It gets a default of 0 for this, but pr doesn't
like a "pr -o 0" and gives only an error message for that. I am just
asking in our internal list, if i can relax the posix conformance for
pr for these annoying features :-). Also you may need to convert a normal
ascii file from a Linefeed only file to a Cariage Return/Linefeed file
before printing. I have achieved that with a pipe of the "pr" output
to:
" | awk 'ORS=\r\n" { print } '
And if i now would only find out, why the Canon BJ10e driver in ghostscript
uses slightly wrong paper-sizes and looses some pixels on the edge, i would
be completely happy :-).
ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de )
Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5
Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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