From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 22 14:17:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16558 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (max2-144.HiWAAY.net [206.104.22.144]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16492 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA16370; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 16:16:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199609221541.RAA11639@yedi.iaf.nl> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 16:04:05 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Amateur Radio N4HHE, Madison, AL. From: David Kelly To: Wilko Bulte Subject: RE: using Apple Laserwriter (postscript) with FreeBSD Cc: (FreeBSD hackers list) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 22:41:33 Wilko Bulte wrote: >>Howdy > >What kind of output filter do you people use to hookup serial >postscript printers to FreeBSD? > >Because a postscript printer really likes 2way communications something >like SVR4's postio is called for (I think). I think most people run the link one way. Did you check the FreeBSD handbook? It recommends lprps as the "if" filter listed in /etc/printcap. While my old (2.1.0R) copy of the Handbooks says lprps would hopefully be in ports or packages "by the time you read this", it wasn't. Forgot exactly where I found it. In lprps I didn't like "textps" at all. Needed more tuning than I felt like on Friday just to get it to fit the page on my Personal LaserWriter NTR (more than the A4 vs Letter issue) so I fell back to good old a2ps (which is in the ports, at least ports-current). My users actually *demanded* crumby 12-point 80 column 66 lines-per-page output. Disabled all the headers and footers in the invocation of a2ps in the script. Gotta go back and force 66 lines per page on Monday. But at least I got text out of the left margin where they punch holes. Ugh. Used lprps to manage the 2-way communication. Replaced "textps" with "a2ps" in the lprps-ascii (?) script (called by lprps). Left the lprps stuff in for reversing print page order. And all was good. And all this was actually done on a Sun IPC running 4.1.3. And an original non-Plus Apple LaserWriter. Don't know where they found a 9 year old printer with only 9k pages on its engine. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.