From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 8 17: 1:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BBE14A03 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:01:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yule@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (yule@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/) via ESMTP id RAA08422; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:01:15 -0800 (PST) env-from (yule@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:01:15 -0800 (PST) From: Yui To: Manfred Usselmann Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: have i transgressed some policies accepted in this list? In-Reply-To: <38254CB1.E1248368@icg-online.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i believe this problem is documented in the Complete book, the chapter on printing. from the book: "Put the folowing shell script in /usr/local/libexec/lpfilter:" #!/bin/sh printf "\033&k2G" && cat && printf "\f" && exit 0 exit 2 actually, this is taken straight from the handbook, so u can check that out too. hope this helps. yui On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Manfred Usselmann wrote: > I don't remember your original question, but staircase effect rings a bell: > This is the problem with the line termination. Windows uses carriage return and > line feed, Unix only line feed. It seems your printer is configured for Windows > and does not return to the beginning of the new line after it receives the line > feed character. As far as i know there are two solutions: use some kind of > filter to get the missing cr character inserted or change the setting of your > printer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message