Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:31:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Gary Aitken <garya@ics.com> Cc: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stty -- not Message-ID: <199605230631.AAA07373@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 23 May 1996 00:20:27 MDT
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I'm not sure what the right and proper way to do this is, but I have a
printcap entry:
lp:bj200:Canon BJ-200e:\
:sh:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/bj200:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:mx#0:
lc:bj200-crlf:Canon BJ-200e with CRLF translation:\
:sh:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/bj200:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/addcr:
ps:bj200-ps:Canon BJ-200e with PostScript translation:\
:sh:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/bj200:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/psfilt:
where addcr does the following:
#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/$/^M/'
echo ^L
(the two character sequences above ^M, etc are really the actual
control characters).
I then print lpr -Plc xxx to print something that isn't raw bits for
my printer. The ps entry is so I can print postscript files directly
on my non-postscript printer with the aid of gs. I lost my psfilt
program in the last great disk crash, but it was a simple hack of
gsbj. Since I use aladdin gs, I get free pdf printing too :-).
A kludge I know, but it even worked when I had the LA-50 hooked up to
the machine, and that was a serial printer. I just let lpd open the
LA-50 in raw mode and dealt with the problem elsewhere.
Pointers to the right way to do this would be accepted joyfully.
Warner
P.S. I sent my last mail after midnight to give me an additional 24
hours to come up with something :-)
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