rouilj@umb.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard) (02/01/90)
A month or so ago I posted a request for help getting the output of
Gustaf Neuman's dvi2lj to print on an HP Laserjet II on a Sun 386i.
Those of you who told me it was a problem with the lp driver
converting decimal 10's <LF> in the binary stream into <LF> <CR> pairs
were right.
I added a line ms=raw to the printcap file and was up and running.
For those of you who are not familiar with the ms command on 386i's
it allows you to use STTY(1) command to set the ioctl bits on the port
that you are using. I think this is standard BSD, but I am not sure.
For those of you with plain SYSV boxes, you can write stty commands
in the interface script that will take care of this.
Unfortunately, I now have two logical printer hp and hpd one for
regular files where LF-CRLF mapping is neeed, and the other for binary
files. Well, I guess you can't get everything.
For those of you who asked me to mail you what info I came up with,
all the replies have been sent. I only has a couple of bounces.
However there is still a problem. The spooler doesn't realize when
the hp isn't online. There is a manual switch on the serial line to
the printer so that it can be used by an ibm-pc as well as the
network. I assumed that opens on the port were supposed to wait for a
signal before they returned, unfortunately this doesn't seem to be
happening. The spooler just dumps the data down the line. I really
would like to have the spooler wait and the when the printer comes
back on-line. print. Does anybody have any ideas.
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