Subject: Re: printing to Xerox 230 ST
To: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@servtech.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/17/1999 14:27:40
A good plan, but unfortunately, todos must either be a pkg, and in that case
the absence of the pkg system in 1.2 is a problem, or it is part of newer
systems, but not 1.2
Do you have a pointer to the source so I could try to build it up?

Brad

>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
>> >
>> >--
>> >          NetBSD - the most widely ported operating system available
>>
>>
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