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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:08:25 -0600
From:      kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
To:        edward@seaysys.com
Cc:        fadorno@ix.netcom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Printcap and Laser printer
Message-ID:  <9508102008.AA11880@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <9508101919.AA04778@seaysys.com> (edward@seaysys.com)

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>>>>> "Edward" == Edward E Elzey <edward@seaysys.com> writes:

    Edward> Your printer is not seeing any "carriage return"
    Edward> characters.  The

    Edward>    echo "\033&k3G"

    Edward> should be telling the printer to add a <CR> preceeding
    Edward> each <LF> character.  It seems that this is not happening.

Try using

	printf "\033&k2G"

insetead of echo.

-- 
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd
ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and
forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.
-- Jack Handey



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