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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Printing manual pages.
Date: 7 Mar 1995 10:33:38 -0600
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In article <3jglvc$eke@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
SPoulsen <spoulsen@aol.com> wrote:
>I have tried to print manual pages to a laser printer and am having
>problems.  The printer is an Apple Laserwriter (9600,N,8,1).  I can print
>text files fine.  /etc/printcap has br=9600 ms:ixon,-parity among other
>things.

Does the printcap entry include sb or sh to suppress the burst page.
This won't be PostScript and will cause the printer all sorts of fits
if it's on there.

C.
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