YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET (10/12/89)
(I got a returned mail from Postmaster@apollo.com. Im sending this again)
After having read the recent postings on "the deafeaning silence", I
repost my mail here. Hope that someone would help. BTW, this is my first
posting ever. I'd got a response for my second posting on SPM
thru' private mail. Thanks. Here you go....
1) We've a Seikosha dot-matrix printer connected to a SR10.1 node running
BSD4.3. We used 'genicom' device driver in our prsvr configuration file.
After having setup prsvr & prmgr, our text files can be printed on the
Seikosha printer using prf, but almost every printed line is prefixed
with 120e0m. (I presume it's genicom printer control code.) Right now
we use 'prf -trans' to print our text files, that means we lost all the
good features of prf such as -head, -banner & etc.
Q: Is there a way to substitute the genicom control codes by other
dot-matrix printer control codes? How?
Q: Is there a generic device driver available for printing text file
on a dot-matrix or line printer which has a serial/RS232 port?
2) I've tried to build a simple device driver by following the example
shown in 5.1.2 of "Printing in the Aegis Environment". I encountered
the following problem during bind:
Unresolved globals:
add_db_range_c First referenced in driver_ex.bin
add_db_value_c ""
get_db_value_c ""
inq_entry_c ""
Q: Where is the lib for there routines?
3) What is TML as mentioned in "Printing in the Aegis Environment"?
4) We've managed to set up lpd in a separate testing. We're able to get lpr
to work w/o prsvr & prmgr. The problem is that the output is in double
spacing. Any body knows how to fix it?
Thanks for your helps in advance.
--AnnKian Yeo
Email: YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET
or YEOAK%NUSDISCS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS)
National University of Singapore (NUS)