From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 4:21:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A7C37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 04:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B645343E4A for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 04:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA7CLUuF029399; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:21:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id gA7CLUeE029396; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:21:30 -0700 (MST)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:21:30 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: paul beard Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tip(1) questions In-Reply-To: <3DCA001E.8050801@u.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: > So I have tried to use tip to connect to this old printer, and it > seems less than responsive. tip will connect but that I can't use > any escapes: I have to kill the tip process from another session. > I did successfully get the printer to identify itself after I > power-cycled it, but that was it. > > tip was unable to do anything else for me and subsequent > connections required me to kill the process. The baud rates should > be OK (I am using 57600). Dunno if an old serial printer can go even that fast; it isn't really necessary for it to support a rate faster than it can print, which could be much less. Handshake could also be a problem. Serial cables have always been a pain, serial *printer* cables even more so. I'd start with 9600 baud and XON/XOFF handshake, then work up to faster rates and hardware handshake if the printer supports it (Mac serial mini-DIN connectors are missing some of the standard non-standard serial pins.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message