From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 13:09:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA21633 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:09:59 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA21610 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 13:09:41 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA18958; Thu, 10 Aug 95 20:08:27 GMT Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA11880; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:08:25 -0600 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:08:25 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9508102008.AA11880@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: edward@seaysys.com Cc: fadorno@ix.netcom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9508101919.AA04778@seaysys.com> (edward@seaysys.com) Subject: Re: Printcap and Laser printer Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Edward" == Edward E Elzey 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 preceeding Edward> each 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