Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:37:24 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DOSCMD: How do you set up printing? Message-ID: <19980118173724.32263@ct.picker.com>
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QUESTION #2:
How do you set up printing for LPT1:?
SUMMARY : I'm having 3 basic problems:
(1) "assign" device -to- DOS device correspondence
(2) Timeouts
(3) Mystery form feeds
MORE DETAIL :
(1)
I added this to my doscmdrc:
assign lpt1: direct /dev/lpt0
but when I tried "copy con:lpt1:", typed some text, and hit EOF (F6), I got
a number of:
/dev/lp0: No such file or directory
So I tried changing the assign to "lpt0:" (man page says its OK), but
DOSCMD didn't take it and numbering starts at 1 in DOS anyway, so
guess that's a man page typo.
Returning to:
assign lpt1: direct /dev/lpt0
I tried "copy con:lpt2:" which, after 30 seconds, printed my output.
(2)
Then, playing with this odd combination (assign lpt1, actually use LPT2:),
I had problems with timeouts. I'd really prefer no queuing or a very short
queue interval -- that is, send it immediately. So I tried:
assign lpt1: direct /dev/lpt0 1
And it was still 30 seconds until I saw my output. A 0 timeout did the same.
(3)
Finally, each 30 second flush always printed and ejected the page, as if
some S/W were injected a formfeed (^L) character in there on a flush. Is
there a way to suppress this spurious formfeed?
Thanks,
Randall
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