Re: repost - printing - help please
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:02:09PM +0000, Rupert wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> > > > what to do now?
> > > >
> > > try to print something?
> > > echo "test" | lpr
> >
> > does nothing!
>
> You may possibly need to send a form-feed character to the printer to
> eject the paper. I think you can do this with
>
> printf 'test\f' | lpr
still does nothing! :(
regards,
sandip p deshmukh
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