Subject: Re: printing to Xerox 230 ST
To: None <bsalai@servtech.com>
From: Robert Alexander Baxter <rbaxte03@harris.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/16/1999 10:04:42
Brad Salai <bsalai@servtech.com> wrote...

>
> Still not quite home though.  I tried to print a text file, and got
> only the first line, a 70 or so space indented second line, and a
> bunch of blank pages.  I suspect that I need to set up some kind of
> filtering?  The printer will do postscript, but I don't know how it
> handles ascii text.  don't really have access to the printer
> internals, so I'm going to have to handle this from the NetBSD box.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

I don't know if this is sacrilegious, but there's some really great
documentation on setting up /etc/printcap and filters in the FreeBSD
handbook:

   http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/printing.html
   
The syntax, etc. for the file is just the same for NetBSD.

-Alex (:-)
 rbaxte03@harris.com