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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 21:47:21 -0500
To: Matt Storch <mstorch@bestweb.net>
From: Jim Holthaus <jim@holthaus.com>
Subject: Re: Trying to configure HP Deskjet
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>    Despite having read the printer setup guide in the handbook, and
>having looked for information on HP's web site. I cannot get my HP
>Deskjet 540 to work under FreeBSD. The contents of my input filter
>(/usr/local/libexec/if) are:
>
>printf "\O33&k2G" && cat && printf "\f" && exit 0
>exit 2
>

I have a DeskJet 500 and all works fine with my filter.  Note that you will
need perl for this to work.

#!/usr/bin/perl

while (<STDIN>) {
  s/\n/\cJ\cM/g;
  print;
}
print "\f";


--
Jim Holthaus
jim@holthaus.com              <http://www.holthaus.com/>



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