chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (05/27/84)
I was surprised to discover that a number of people have found my
printer spooler (posted a month or two ago to net.sources, along
with Versatec plot library code) to be useful. Anyway, this is to
announce that some modifications are available, as follows:
- New keyword in /etc/spool_devices, ``setup'', allows an
initialization program to be run on the device. I added
this after we got a serial line printer in, and I needed
to initialize the baud rate. A line of the form
setup "stty new 9600 -nl decctlq mdmbuf"
did the trick in this case (along with a Printronix
underline code conversion program for text files, executed
as the default despool program).
- ``spoolq'', to examine spooler queues (and restart
despooler daemon in case it has mysteriously died)
(No ``spoolrm'' program yet, but I installed some stuff to get
a bit closer to having one.)
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