Re: Printing to Appletalk from a shell

[Dragon King <markhj01@isis.visi.com>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Marlin Allred wrote:

> For all you localtalk experts. I am trying to print to a DeskWriter on a
> localtalk network but I have tried to print from the ORCA and the GNO
> shells. I get outptut out to the printer when I use the lprps utility.
> However, everything appears on the same line.
What drivers are you using, and are you printing a text only draft mode?
Not sure if that's possible. How 'bout dip switch settings.. I know on my
DeskJet 500 there are settings for CR to CR + LF conversions. Maybe you
need to toggle that.

 > Then I went to Basic.system and selected PR#7. This produced readable
> results but each line on output appeared immediately after the previous
> line, wrapping to the next line on the paper when the printed output
> reached the right margin. The output showed that the CR and LF but they
> were not interpreted. The output also was printed white on black.
Hmm, white on black.. Interesting. No clue about that one.

> What am I missing to get output to a DeskWriter on a localtalk network?
> It seems that this has been tried before by others.
Once I can get printer sharing software installed on my Mac, I'll be able
to work on localtalk printing more. If it's not too much work, I'd like
give lpd the ability to spool to AppleTalk connected printers. Probably
via an optional "lpd printer" program. And if I have time, I'll look into
bettering the multiple printer support in the same package, tho this topic
is better moved to csa2.gno.

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