Re: Problem with lpr

[Christopher Copeland <copeland@colonelkorn.freeserve.co.uk>]

Baris,
This is a common problem with the way printers and OSes send 
intstructions for carrier return (return to left margin) and new-line 
(move down the page one line).

It can be fixed in one of two ways:
Change a setting on your printer to interpret the unix format rather 
than the DOS format, or instruct the unix server to run a script that 
performs this translation before sending the file to printer.  Which one 
you choose depends on a number of things: do you have other non-unix 
hosts using the printer?

This can be solved pretty easily try googling for "staircase effect 
lpd"  FreeBSD has a good how-to regarding lpd...

CC


On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 07:32 , Baris Y. wrote:

> hi,
>
> /etc/printcap file is as follows:
>
> lp|printer:\
>           :mx#0:\
>           :rp=printer:\
>           :rm=sillibox:\
>           :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
>           :pw#80:\
>           :sh:
>
>
> and the problem is,
> when i print a text file, the second line on the page
> starts at the second row but at the column where the first line's last
> character was. so for example when i print a file with the following
> content:
>
> this is the first line
> this is the second one
> this is the third one
> this is the forth one
>
> the output is like:
>
> this is the first line
>                       this is the second one
>                                             this is the third one
>                                                                   this 
> is the
> forth one
>
>
>
> What do you think the problem might be?
>
> thanks in advance
> baris.
>
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