Novice printer question: /n and <CR><LF>s
Douglas J Freyburger
doug at escher.UUCP
Thu Feb 20 04:39:13 AEST 1986
The printer on my new Ultrix system sends a linefeed but no
carriage return for every newline in the file being
printed. The cursor quickly pegs on the right margin. I
have tried several values in the /etc/printcap entry for
"fs" including "fs#24" as supplied by DEC and "fs#06320" as
recommended by DEC and used on a couple of machines here,
but to no avail. Setting CRMOD or not doesn't seem to
work. The printer is an Ancient DECwriter III, but
swapping the line to a VT100 does the same thing. The
current /etc/printcap entry is:
lp|The old DECwriter:\
:fs#06320:br#1200:lp=/dev/ttyh0:\
:of=/usr/lib/lpd:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
Any suggestions on what I am missing?
P.S. Thanx to all the answers I got about translating file
pointers to file names. I have seen various Emacs's doing
it, but I didn't realize what problems were involved.
--
Doug Freyburger DOUG at JPL-VLSI,
JPL Mail Stop 23 escher!doug, escher!teleop!doug
Pasadena, CA 91109 etc.
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