Subject: Re: printing to Xerox 230 ST
To: Brad Salai <bsalai@servtech.com>
From: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/16/1999 19:04:18
Well, I don't have a printer attached to my NetBSD/i386 box, but in other
forms of Unix I have been able to do a:

	cat filename | todos | lpr -Pxerox

Which will convert all the LFs to CRLFs.

--fission

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Brad Salai wrote:

> That got it to print, thank you.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Brad
> 
> At 9:33 AM +0100 6/16/99, Julian Coleman wrote:
> >> We just got a demo Xerox 230 ST printer/copier/fax/scanner/breadmaker, and
> >> I'd like to try to print to it from our NetBSD 1.2 mailserver.
> >
> >Something like :
> >
> ># Xerox 230 ST breadmaker
> >xerox|Xerox 230 ST:\
> >	:rm=xerox230st:\
> >	:sd=/var/spool/output/xerox230st:
> >
> >?
> >
> >J
> >
> >--
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> 
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