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From: fadorno@ix.netcom.com (Fred Adorno )
Subject: Re: Printcap and Laser printer
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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You wrote: 
>
>> 
>> You wrote: 
>> >
>> >> 
>> >> I have not been able to configure my Epson laser printer with 
this 
>> >> software.  It is setup for a single user on a 486DX66 machine.  
The 
>> >> printer device is lpt0.  Please help me!!!!!
>> >
>> >What happens, if you type
>> >
>> >lpr /etc/passwd
>> >
>> >Does anything come out of the printer on a freshly powered up and 
>> rebooted
>> >system ?(I'm saying that because the history sometimes can
>> >make things more complicated).
>> >
>> >> 
>> >Send me your /etc/printcap
>> >
>> >Consult the file /var/log/lpd-errs (normally).
>> >
>> >
>> >--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>> >
>> Thanks for responding, Chris!  I did as you ask and I got an error 
msg 
>> on screen that reads "lpd [158]: cannot execv 
>> /usr/libexec/lpr/#!/bin/sh:"
>> 
>> My printcap reads:
>> 
>> lp|epson|action|laser|Epson Actionlaser 1500:\
>>     :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:mx#0:\
>>     :if=/usr/libexec/lpr/#!/bin/sh:\
>>     printf "\033&k3G"
>>     exec /bin/cat
>> 
>Maybe this 'in-line shell script in printcap is a tricky
>feature but unless I had understood that trick in full
>and were sure that FreeBSD supports feature
>I'd be conservative and wrtoe the if line as follows
>
>     :if=/usr/local/bin/lpf:\
>
>and create that script 'lpf' in /usr/local/bin:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>echo "\033&k3G"
>exec /bin/cat
>
>proviced that the guy who gave you that escape sequence knows what 
he's doing.
>
>See what happens then.
>
>> What's the solution?  When it prints, I get garbage and it form 
feeds 
>> forever.  When I do the lptest, I only get 1 line of ASCI characters 

>> and it form feeds indefinitely.
>> 
>
>--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>
I did as you said.  Still when I do the lptest, I get 1 line of ASCII 
and form feeds forever.  I get the feeling also that I should be doing 
something with "chmod" and other when I keep changing this printcap.  
Show me how to undo all of this and let's start from scratch.  The 
printer emulates HP III LaserJet, Epson LQ, FX, GL/2.  I just want to 
be able to print text files, shells, man pages or word processing.  Are 
my options limited?