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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Printing under FreeBSD 1.5.1.1
Date: 14 Aug 1994 01:19:10 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Knowledge Network
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tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
: You can probably tell from this that printing under any BSD-derived OS
: is going to be a pain. Ask me, I know. My printer, an HP DeskJet
: 500, won't work properly at all so I have given up on trying to print
: under BSD. If I could somehow change LF to CR-LF, it MIGHT actually
: work right when I cat > /dev/lpt0. Now, when it gets to the 80th
: column, it gets confused and stops. Maybe I should go back to a daisy
: wheel...
There should be a DIP switch you can set on your DJ, like there is on my
DJ Plus. Check the manuals, if you burned them I can tell you which one
you'd set on a Plus.
Sherman
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