Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:55:24 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "Neil T. Mathison" <mathison@sara.cpb.org> Cc: "Pariy, Semion" <Pariy@ibs.msk.su>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD -> NT40 -> printer Message-ID: <334CF14C.5DC8@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970410085545.10549A-100000@sara.cpb.org>
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Neil T. Mathison wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Pariy, Semion wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > how can I install printer on FreeBSD 2.2 , if printer connected to > > computer with Windows NT40. FreeBSD and NT40 connected to local > > network? > > > > Semion Pariy > > > > I am struggling with this also. We are using NT 3.51 with it's TCP/IP > printing services (LPD daemon). The target printer is a HP Laserjet 4M. > printcap is set up for remote printing as per the handbook. However, > right now it only prints plain ASCII correctly. Even though the HP 4M > is suppose to switch to it's postscript personality automatically upon > seeing a postscript file, its is printed as text. Moreover, special > characters like backspace are not interpreted as such, but are displayed > as a 'garbage' character. > > The print spooler on the NT box is set up to treat the data as RAW, > which I assumed to mean to pass it through without screwing with it. > The lack of handling of the backspace character confirms that much. > However, why is a postscript file not recognized as such by the HP. > > Some NT guru mentioned that the NT LPD service required a control > character of (lower case l). I'm not certain what he meant by that, > and neither was he. He pulled it out of some book. Real easy. Send the jobs using lpr -l instead of plain lpr. I didn't have this problem with NT 3.51 (just with 4.0), but the symptoms you describe seem to indicate that this is indeed the cure. > > Anyway, I will need to experiment with filters to see if I can print > files other than as just plain text. I would be interested in finding > out what you discover. > > Regards, > > Neil Mathison Nadav
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