Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd resolved

1996-11-24 Thread Simon Martin
Mario Giammarco wrote: > I cannot understand why a cable let some program print and other no. This is because there different handshaking schemes that can be implemented on the Centronics interface. I don't have a copy of the IEEE specification at the moment so I can't be more specific. One of th

Strange behavior of lpr+lpd resolved

1996-11-23 Thread mgiammarco
Incredible, I have changed the printer cable, and now the Epson Stylus prints! I have also had to use the tunelp program, but with the old cable it had no effect, with the new I cannot understand why a cable let some program print and other no. I thank You for your interest, expecially Dav

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-23 Thread David Frey
On Thu, 21 Nov 96 14:48:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Which version of gs dou you use? >Version 3.33 it is not a debian package, I installed it manually. (well, there is one in non-free) >> >If I invoke the filter with /etc/filter.ps > >>/dev/lp1 the printer prints. >> Ok. So for so good.

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd : apology

1996-11-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I apologize for having sent that huge uuencoded gif to the list; it never even occurred to me to check the size of the file. The jest perhaps would have been met with more appreciation had I cropped the .gif down to the small section showing the 'bleck' faces in the printcap file. I'll never

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-21 Thread Hunter Marshall
I can not comment on the thread as developed so far, but let me add that since I have moved to debian1.1, lpr does not reliably print to a printer that worked for 0.93. The printer is an Apple 16/600 accessed directly via tcp/ip. If i send a printjob to a different IP address that is a Gatorbox th

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-21 Thread mgiammarco
You wrote: > > Which version of gs dou you use? Version 3.33 it is not a debian package, I installed it manually. > > >If I invoke the filter with /etc/filter.ps >>/dev/lp1 the printer prints. > > Ok. So for so good. > >If I do lpr filetoprint.ps nothing appear. If I do lpq it says > >"lp is re

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-21 Thread rac0043
You wrote: > > Which version of gs dou you use? Version 3.33 it is not a debian package, I installed it manually. > > >If I invoke the filter with /etc/filter.ps >>/dev/lp1 the printer prints. > > Ok. So for so good. > >If I do lpr filetoprint.ps nothing appear. If I do lpq it says "lp > >is rea

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "Karl M. Hegbloom": > With XEmacs and ViewMail, the problem becomes obvious! I've enclosed > a uuencoded screenshot to demonstrate: It is _not_ a good idea to post 140 kilobytes to a public mailing list. Please put it on a

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
With XEmacs and ViewMail, the problem becomes obvious! I've enclosed a uuencoded screenshot to demonstrate: begin 664 mryuck.jpg M_]C_X``02D9)[EMAIL PROTECTED]@!)0U)%051/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@5F5R2`](#7J#A(6&AXB)BI*3 ME)66EYB9FJ*CI*6FIZBIJK*SM+6VM[BYNL+#Q,7&Q\C)RM+3U-76U]C9VN'B MX^3EYN?HZ>KQ\O/T]?;W

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-18 Thread rac0043
You wrote: > Maybe, but please post your filter(s) and the /etc/printcap file, > so that we can examine the problem. This is my printcap: lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/etc/filter.ps:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-18 Thread David Frey
On Sat, 16 Nov 96 23:04:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I wrote a new filter and nothing come out of the printer. So I >invoked the filter manually with the output redirected to /dev/lp1 >and all worked fine. I also tried apsfilter and magicfilter but they >did not function. So, I think

Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-16 Thread rac0043
Hello to all users, I have a problem with debian1.1.4 lpd+lpr. I had previously debian0.93 and a 9pin dot matrix printer. I write my printcap, used ghostscript in a filter and used lpr to print files. Then I sold my 9pin printer and I bought an epson stylus color pro. I also upgraded 0.93 to 1