re: panasonic printer problem

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

This is getting interesting now and I have some good news.  I hooked the 
printer up to a real dos box that never had any other operating system on 
it and used a file manager to print a file.  This time, the file came out 
legible with no garbage.  So, I'm thinking printing with this kind of 
printer using Linux will probably work only using cat filename >/dev/lp0 
and not using any of the other printing facilities.  I could be wrong 
about that but don't think so.  I'll try later and get some assistance 
finding out what happened.