From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 15:42:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15444 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au (toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au [131.217.85.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15389 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:41:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hart@toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au) Received: from toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au (ppp-client.artschool.utas.edu.au [131.217.85.21]) by toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA16121 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:40:24 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from hart@toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au) Message-ID: <34E2C72F.29C675B1@toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:56:09 +0100 From: Bill Hart Reply-To: hart@toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au Organization: Tasmanian School of Art X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems sending binary data to parrallel port printer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, this must be a common problem but I can't find reference to it anywhere... I have Tektronix Phaser IIIPXi (postscript) colour printer, which was connected to Appletalk, but now I want to put on ethernet. FreeBSD (2.2.5) + netatalk + parrallel port is a cheap way to do it. Spooling with netatalk and FreeBSD works fine... Printing ascii encoded postscript files also works fine. Printing postscript files containing binary data and the printer hangs forever. Further investigation finds that I can cat ascii postscript files (i.e. cat test.ps > /dev/lpt0) ok, but not postscript files containing binary encoded image data. Anybody have an idea for a way around this ? thanks in advance -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message