Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 12:16:08 -0600 From: Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com> To: "Allen Hyer" <allenh@wtrt.net>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remote printers Message-ID: <2.2.32.19961209181608.0071bb10@nething.com>
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At 11:35 AM 12/9/96 -0600, Allen Hyer wrote: > I am just trying to print plain text, nothing fancy. The text gets to >the printer, with one problem. At the end of a line of text, the printer >does a newline, but not a carriage return. I have tried using an input >filter, to no avail. Can you use an input filter on a remote printer? If >not, any idea how I can get this to work? I really don't want to change >the configuration of the printer, as it also serves the Novell LAN and the >AS/400. The laserjet needs to be sent a command to turn on "LF=CR+LF". The command is "Escape" followed by "&k2G". I do this by using a filter containing: #!/bin/sh printf "\033E\033&k2G" cat - printf "\033E" If the filter doesn't work on the remote printer, you might try and get whatever is generating the print job to prepend the command. Randy Berndt <rberndt@nething.com> ---------------------------------- AOS/VS, FreeBSD, DOS: I'm caught in a maze of twisty little command interpreters, all different.
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