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From: maw@techfak.uni-kiel.de (Maciej Wiatr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Printer spooler loosing characters
Date: 5 Feb 1997 09:23:26 GMT
Organization: Technische Fakultaet, University of Kiel, Germany
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Hi,

some time ago i tried to configure my printer spooler
and got it to work for text files with a trick.
The problem is the spooling, which looses the first
charcter of a sent charcter sequence.
Example: Normally i need to send following to set the hpdjet500
printer for CR+LF

printf "\033&2kG"

In my case it must look like this:

printf " \n\033&2kG"

The same thing happens to the first character of a file
sent to spooler with the Cat command or more command.

Any idea? Think of hardware conflict?
Greets

		Maciej
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