Hi, Jude, relax and take your time to read and
It is recommended not to use top posting on Mailing list. (I reordered) > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> You are very unclear what you mean by "real dos computer". On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:04:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > By real dos computer I mean a different machine with msdos 6.22 installed > on it that was connected to the printer through its parallel port and the > file was copied to a floppy disk and printed from that floppy disk on the > other machine. The other machine hasn't enough resources to install > windows or Linux, so it's a real dos machine. When I tried this on > debian I tried: cat biglots.txt >/dev/lp0 and lpr biglots.txt and lp > biglots.txt I didn't try piping the cat through lp or lpr. The 13 line > file was a text file I made with ex if memory serves. So far, I understand but you did not answer the rest of the mail. >> Are you doing: >> >> debian $ cat somefile.txt |lpr >> >> dos> cat somefile.txt > PRT: >> >> or used some DOS full screen application to print via menu dialog. >> >> (I forgot DOS device name for parport.) This is important. >>> I have a printer queue set up which allows lpr and lp both to >>> print garbage last time a sighted person took a look dollar signs >>> question marks and very long lines of text were being printed. >> >> If you are using DOS full screen application to print via menu dialog, >> text is processed to fit to printer protocol by your DOS application. >> >> If you did not configure lpr right, data is directly sent to printer. >> UTF-8 character makes this situation worse because printer assumes asii >> with some escape sequence as expected input. >> >> I recommend you to use CUPS which set up printer eaily. If you have >> problem with some UTF-8 chracters, you need to convert text with a2ps >> etc. to ps file. >> >>> This is a grocery list with one item per line. >> >> Please read following and CUPS documentation for more: >> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch06.en.html#_the_print_server_and_utility >> http://www.cups.org/ Have you took time to read at least some of these? Anyway, you really need to configure printer system. There is no one line answer for it. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
