Printing filePro with printer directly attached to FreeBSD server.

Walter Vaughan wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Tue May 3 17:44:37 PDT 2005


Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Walter Vaughan propounded (on Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:54:27PM -0400):

> | # Tells printer to treat LF as CR+LF.  Ejects the page when done.
> | printf "\033&k2G" && cat && printf "\033&l0H" && exit 0
> | exit 2
> 
> <ESC>l0H, the eject page command, emits a CarriageReturn and a FormFeed.
> If you already printed a full page of stuff, that FF is giving you a
> blank page.

The aforementioned interface script "fixes" the problem of extra blank pages 
"for me", as well as allows text to print and paginate as expected.

YYMV.



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