Printer Connection Problem

[Jaap Bril]

We encountered a similar problem connecting a (non-postscript) printer to
a VAX with 4.2BSD.

It turned out that the ioctl-calls lpr did were faulty.
#
a5010c| ACCOUNTED printer :\
	:lp=/dev/a5010c:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/a5010c:\
	:st=/usr/adm/a5010c/status:\
	:af=/usr/adm/a5010c/acc:\
	:if=/usr/adm/a5010c/filter:\
	:lf=/usr/adm/a5016t/log:\
	:xs#0000040:\
	:pl#66:\
	:py#67:\
	:pw#96:\
	:px#96:\
	:tr=:br#9600:\
	:sc:\
	:sh:
#
We patched by putting in a driver (converter) wich did a setline:

#ifdef 4.2BSD
#include <sgtty.h>

/* these really should be in lpd */

setline()
{
	struct sgttyb tty_sg;	/* needed for an */
	short int tty_local;	/* 8 bit interface with xonn/xoff */

	ioctl(1,TIOCGETP,&tty_sg);
	ioctl(1,TIOCLGET,&tty_local);
	ioctl(1,TIOCSETP,&tty_sg);
	ioctl(1,TIOCLSET,&tty_local);
	ioctl(1,TIOCSETP,&tty_sg);
}
#endif

MAybe this works for SUN too.
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