john13@garfield.UUCP (06/16/87)
[] Possibly everyone already knows this, but I'll post it for the benefit of those unfamiliar with Unix. If you use "cmd" to capture output destined for, say, a HP Ljet+ and want to print it on a Unix system, you will have trouble using any of the printer daemons that I've found (lpr f'rinstance). The way to do it is to find the device named in the "lp=" entry of /etc/printcap and use that as a sort of named pipe. In my case it was /dev/vm0, so to print a DPaint II picture on it the command was "cat capture > /dev/vm0". I imagine this would screw up any jobs that were in progress at the time, so be careful with this! BTW, a while back I had found scaling factors that printed a DP II picture with almost zero distortion, but I've since forgotten. Does anyone have the best figures to use for x and y %'s? John, eagerly awaiting the fixed cmd.uue on .binaries PS The ultra-fast mandelbrot generator should also be appearing there shortly.