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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing problems Date: 27 May 1996 11:00:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4oc20b$6u0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4o2s6k$bl3@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E digdon@yohoho.org (Mike Digdon) wrote: > Lpr/lpd is behaving very strangely for me. When booted into DOS mode, my > printer prints normally (ie: fast). However, when printing using lpr, my > printer prints a line, pauses anywhere from 3 to 10 seconds and then prints > the next line. I thought this is in the handbook or FAQ... Your printer/cable/printer card doesn't handle the /ACK signal right, so the printer doesn't generate interrupts. You'll have to fix the hardware, or revert the printer to polled mode (higher CPU load), using lptcontrol(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)