Problems hooking parallel printer to my 7300 (repost)
Eric Swanson
editor at wet.UUCP
Sun Mar 3 17:19:37 AEST 1991
Sorry if this is a duplicate, but news has been flaky here the past
few weeks and I haven't got a reply since I posted this a few days
back. Thanks... ---E
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Okay, someone must have seen this one:
I've never hooked a printer to my 7300 before. Bought a parallel
printer (a Panasonic KX-P1180 for what it's worth), got one of those
much-talked-about male-to-male Centronics cables, hooked it up, used
the printer configuration menu from ua, and got JUNK!
Nature of junk is that if I create a file 'test' that looks like the
below:
this is a test
this is only a test
this is line three
and I (foolishly) type:
lp test
the printer shows:
this`is`a`testMJthis`is`only`a`testMJthis`is`line`threeMJML
and it only shows that after I take it off-line (that is, there's no
CR at the end of the line; I have to flush the printer's buffer to get
it to print this).
I've looked through /usr/spool/lp/interface/Other (the executable
interface file) and found nothing that explains this. To corroborrate
(sp?) this, I typed:
cat test >/dev/lp
cat test >/dev/rawlp
These both returned similar results (though using 'rawlp' sent fewer
characters; omitting pretty much what it should omit, with the sole
exception of ALL THIS JUNK).
Also, just to be sure, I dug a Kaypro out of the closet and hooked it
up to the printer. Printer functioned perfectly, so bad characters
are definitely coming from the unixpc.
Configuration rundown:
7300, 0.5Meg, 20Meg, Unix 3.0, blah blah blah. References available
upon request.
Please respond. This thing is just about driving me crazy. I've got
a copule more avenues to explore tomorrow, but now it's past midnight
and I'd like to get to work on time _once_ this week...
Editor.
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