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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Printing with HP Deskjet
To: dbaker@baker.err.com (Daniel Baker)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 10:53:15 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951025214329.235A-100000@concorde-sam> from "Daniel Baker" at Oct 25, 95 09:48:29 pm
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> 
> I have a HP Deskjet 560c, and even after reading the handbooks, FAQs, and 
> getting ghostscript running, I still cna't print correctly.
> 
> Whenever I print by typing lpr filename, or doing a cat foobar.ps 
> >/dev/lpt0, I just get three lines like this:
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> 		%%Creator: groff version 1.09
> 						%%CreationDate: Thu Sep 14

You need a filter to change LF to CRLF, at the very least.

Man printcap.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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