I have a spooled printer that's used by our library package to print
labels. It was form feeding and causing the alignment to be messed up so
I changed the printcap entry to include "sf" to suppress form feeds but it
didn't work. I did discover that 'lpr -x' causes the form feeds to be
suppressed but I have no way of forcing the library software to include -x
in its print command. My next thought was to put the transparent filter
'xf' in place of the output filter. Here's the printcap entry:
techsvcs|lp13|labels:\
:af=/usr/adm/lp13acct:\
:br#4800:\
:ct=dev:\
:fc#0177777:\
:fs#023:\
:if=/usr/lbin/la75of:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp13err:\
:lp=/dev/tty0F:\
:mx#0:\
:of=/usr/lbin/xf:\
:pl#66:\
:pw#80:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd13:\
:sf:\
:sh:\
:xc#0177777:\
:xf=/usr/lbin/xf:\
:xs#044000:
With the output filter set to la75of it works fine (but form feeds). When
set as shown above nothing prints. Here's what shows up in lpr.log:
May 9 10:22:33 beta lpd[4250]: pid=23346 (sig=13,err=-1)
May 9 10:22:35 beta lpd[4250]: pid=16979 (sig=-1,err=0)
May 9 10:22:44 beta lpd[4250]: pid=23242 (sig=13,err=-1)
Does anyone have any idea what these signals mean or how I can get this
puppy to print without form feeding? Thanks in advance.
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
newcomer_at_dickinson.edu P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
"If God is your co-pilot, switch seats!"
Received on Thu May 09 1996 - 17:34:28 NZST