lipton@halleys.UUCP (Gary Lipton) (05/15/87)
I need to send an escape-sequence initialization string to
a printer. (This is actually to select plotters through a
mux). To my surprise, I found that printcap does not have
any provision for sending initialization strings. I noticed
that termcap does have this provision, but it doesn't seem
to transfer to printcap. I tried setting "ff" (form-feed) equal
to my initialization string, and then requiring a form-feed
at the beginning of every plot, by setting "fo" (a less-than-
ideal solution) but this doesn't work. Either the escape
character isn't making it through, or it is preceded by something.
Does anybody know how to initialize a printer?
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