Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:35:26 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "John Stevens" <tobyone@alphalink.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Printers Message-ID: <200003102035.e2AKZQm75751@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:09:24 %2B1100." <022401bf8a4e$ce487340$8c00a8c0@david>
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"John Stevens" writes:
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| I have a serial printer connected to com3 which loses characters after =
| a few pages, the printer
| supports both hardware(DTR) and software(XON/XOFF) flow control, how =
| do I configure FreeBSD(3.2) to overcome this problem.
|
| Regards Tobyone
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Set the flow control parameters for the device file in one of the boot
scripts using the stty(1) command:
stty -f /dev/ttyd7 crtscts ixon
This can also be set using :ms=crtscts,ixon: in the printers /etc/printcap
entry.
good luck
chris
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Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
303 773 9134
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