Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> writes:

> On Jun 18,  9:44am, Peter Bentley wrote:
> } Looks to me like a banner page (think "banner knut") but with no
> } carriage returns, just linefeeds.

Off course!  Why didn't I think of it?  (The output was not a function
of the input, and I could not see why.  It was always the letters
k n t....  and I could not see that the printer was trying to spell my
name.)

> I don't recommend doing this since it will corrupt binary data if
> you are printing PCL graphics.
> 
> I did find one typo in the printcap stuff in my last message.
> }       ff=\EE\E&12a0o7.27C\E(s0p12h3T\E&k2G:fo:tr=\EE
> This should be
>         ff=\EE\E&l2a0o7.27C\E(s0p12h3T\E&k2G:fo:tr=\EE
>                  ^ the letter l, not the digit 1
> I think the \E&k2G string is the correct incantation to tell the printer
> to interpret a LF character as a CR+LF.  The 'fo' flag is important.
> Without it, the the first file printed by "lpr file1 file2 file3" will
> be corrupted, but the others will be correct.

I will be trying this tonight.

Thanks to both of you!

~kas