From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 7:31: 0 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 0095837B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4997D43E6E for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:30:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gA7FUu307308; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:30:56 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200211071530.gA7FUu307308@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: tip(1) questions To: pdb2@u.washington.edu (paul beard) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:30:56 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3DCA001E.8050801@u.washington.edu> from "paul beard" at Nov 06, 2002 09:54:38 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > 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). Does the printer handle that high a rate? I think printers and such on serial ports don't actually do rate negotiation like modems do over phone lines. You probably have to have the baud rate correctly set on both ends. ////jerry > -- > Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / > paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message