On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Brad Salai wrote:

> 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

Heh...I am *really* new to NetBSD and have no idea about packages. ;)

> Do you have a pointer to the source so I could try to build it up?

http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text/
	tofrodos-1.4.tar.gz
	dos2unix-3.0.tar.gz

These are both packages that convert DOS text files to Unix text files and
vice-versa.  True, they were written for Linux, but you should have no
problem compiling them in NetBSD.

--fission

> 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
> >> >
> >> >--
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> >>
> >>
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> 
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> Stephen B. Salai                            Phone (716) 325-5553
> Cumpston & Shaw                             Fax    (716) 262-3906
> Two State Street                            email bsalai@tmonline.com
> Rochester, NY 14614
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