I still have my printing problem. I have now made what I deem to be a
standard RS232 cable ie., the following pairs are connected: (TxD,RxD)
(RTS,CTS) (DSR,DTR) and the GND and RI are connected straight
through. On both ends I shorted DCD to DSR. I would also add that my
test file is:

%!
100 100 moveto
300 500 lineto
stroke showpage
%%EOF

and nothing untoward happens in /var/log/lpd-errs. The daemon is
started with lpd -l. Has anyone met this problem before?

  Thank you,

  Patrick

Patrick Welche wrote:
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 13:03:19 +0000 (GMT)
> 
> I am having problems printing to a LaserWriter II NT, namely nothing
> comes out. If anyone can shed some light on the problem, I would be
> most grateful!
> 
> The story so far:
> 
> baud:		9600
> parity:		none-mark
> handshake:	DSR/DTR
> data bits:	standard/7
> stop bits:	1
> 
> The only way I can get it to print from RiscOS is with 8 data bits,
> not 7, so 9600, 8N1, use DCD, DSR, CTS.
> 
> >From RiscBSD, I tried the following printcap:
> 
> lp|local line printer:\
> 	:lp=/dev/tty00:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
> 	:br#9600:ms=cs8,-parenb,-cstopb,-crtscts,-clocal,-ixon:
> 
> and the result is the on-line light flashes, but no printout
> appears. Resending with cs7, the on-line light flashes a few times,
> then stops, still with no printout. I am unclear what clocal actual
> means:
>      clocal (-clocal)     Assume a line without (with) modem con-
>                           trol.
> Is modem control == DSR/DTR ? (or something like xmodem - what I am
> missing?)