Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:41:09 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Gerry Marcelo <germar@pair.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer Problems "staircase effect" Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.990105123830.7236E-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <00e001be35de$349d52d0$c1772581@doppelganger>
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Gerry Marcelo wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> printf"\033&k2G" && cat && printf"\f" && exit 0
> exit 2
>
> I checked my printer's manual and the ESC &k2G should do the trick,
> but my printer continues to "staircase" no matter what I do.
If you don't like using `sed' and having control characters in your
script file, you can use:
#!/bin/sh
awk '{ printf {"%s\r\n", $0}; }'
printf "\f"
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