Printing filePro with printer directly attached
to FreeBSDserver.
Walter Vaughan
wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Thu May 5 14:51:11 PDT 2005
[From the beating a dead horse department]
Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Walter Vaughan (Thu, 05 May 2005 08:56:19 -0400):
> [...]
>>I just wanted to document it here for later retrieval for anyone else
>>(or me in a few years!) seeing "stairstep" output from filePro on their
>>LaserJet
> If your problem is stairstep output from filePro, simply tell filePro
> to use CR+LF instead of just LF. (Change the newline option in pmaint
> from "3" to "1".)
>
> If the stairstep problem is not limited to filePro, then you can change
> the printer's script to include an "stty onlcr", and the system will add
> the CR to each LF sent.
*My* problem was filePro output was fine, it just always included an extra page
no matter how many lines per page I defined.
Other text was staircased. The solution was documented in numerous places, it
just was hard to find, so I thought I would have it here for other's future
reference.
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