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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!sgi!twilight!story
- From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
- Subject: Re: BSD lpr spooling problems
- Message-ID: <tfm335s@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>
- Keywords: BSD lpr, lp
- Sender: news@twilight.wpd.sgi.com ( CNews Account at twilight.wpd.sgi.com )
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <rcmart.724072055@rw7.urc.tue.nl>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:21:41 GMT
- Lines: 31
-
- In article <rcmart.724072055@rw7.urc.tue.nl> rcmart@urc.tue.nl writes:
- >
- >We have connected a QMS 815MR laserprinter to the builtin parallel port
- >(/dev/plp) of a Indigo workstation, running IRIX 4.0.5F.
-
- [...]
-
- >The ouput filter /usr/spool/bsdlp/lp_filter is just a call to lp:
- >
- >#!/bin/sh
- >#
- ># bsdlpd to sysv lp forward filter
- >#
- >#
- >/usr/bin/lp -dQMS815MR
- >
- >
- >Now we are getting BSD printjobs printed, but sending Postscript files is
- >still causing problems. These files are NOT interpretated as Postscript:
- >they are printed as normal text files!?
- >
- >Does anyone know how we can solve this?
-
- This is a problem with the printer's "emulation sensing" mode. You
- should use the front panel settings to force the printer to interpret
- everything as PostScript.
-
- Cheers,
-
- David Story Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- story@bent.wpd.sgi.com Mountain View, California
-