From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 7 1:57:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailserver.ipf.net (relay.ipf-online.de [195.211.211.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAFFF1503E for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 01:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from usselmann.m@icg-online.de) Received: (qmail 6259 invoked from network); 7 Nov 1999 09:57:35 -0000 Received: from dialin-172.frankfurt.okay.net (HELO icg-online.de) (194.117.255.172) by mail.okay.net with SMTP; 7 Nov 1999 09:57:35 -0000 Message-ID: <38254CB1.E1248368@icg-online.de> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 10:56:01 +0100 From: Manfred Usselmann Organization: ICG GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: have i transgressed some policies accepted in this list? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > The bitter story with my printer continues for 10 days now i have > > sent all information i was asked about(my /etc/printcap, possibility > > to communicate via /dev/lpt0 i have readily and happy presented them) > > i hoped it would bring me and you any further but i have not got > > even one suggestion about how should i deal with the situation. > > So i dare to ask you: > > 1)Have i transgressed something accepted in this mailing list? > > 2) Refuse you answers and suggestions due to some other arcane reason > > or what have happened? > > I supposed 3 days as usual response time and 1 resposting of question > > during contriving of this message. > > I am surely futher ready to answer any additional questions aimed to clear > > the situation > > I looked in the archives for your question (staircase effect when printing) > I don't remember your original question, but staircase effect rings a bell: This is the problem with the line termination. Windows uses carriage return and line feed, Unix only line feed. It seems your printer is configured for Windows and does not return to the beginning of the new line after it receives the line feed character. As far as i know there are two solutions: use some kind of filter to get the missing cr character inserted or change the setting of your printer. > > have you tried /usr/ports/print/apsfilter ? > > -Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message