Printer and BACKSPACE

Peter J. Holsberg pjh at mccc.UUCP
Fri Feb 26 05:21:25 AEST 1988


I am attempting to print text files prepared with "nroff -man" on an
Okidata 294 printer.  This printer *is* capable of backspacing, but
seems to ignore the ^Hs in the text file.

Is there a way of setting the port to pass ^Hs unmolested?  I have tried
playing with /etc/gettydefs "printer" line, with ICANON and OPOST, but
nothing has worked yet.

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