Return to BSD News archive
From: reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 20:48:17 GMT Subject: Re: HP LJ 4 on serial port? Message-ID: <52570015@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpuamsa!reink Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions References: <22eglr$dpq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Lines: 17 aside of any problems with baud rate, parity (none,8) and handshaking, you should also consider that UN*X uses <LF> as line terminator, so if you send a UN*X text file to the printer you will only see the first line. send <ESC>&k2G to your printer before the text file. This PCL sequence will set your printer to translate <LF> into <CR><LF>. You can put this in a if= script file. somting like: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/printf "\e&k2G" cat - /usr/bin/printf "\eE" the <ESC>E will reset the printer after the printjob. Reinier Kleipool