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- From: jwkim@asrispmp1.snu.ac.kr (Jongwon Kim)
- Subject: Parallel printer interface with RC2030 ...(re-posting?)...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.075334.19366@kum.kaist.ac.kr>
- Keywords: printer
- Sender: usenet@kum.kaist.ac.kr (news)
- Reply-To: jwkim@asrispmp1.snu.ac.kr
- Organization: Seoul Nat'l Univ. Control & Instr. Eng. S.P.L., KOREA
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 07:53:34 GMT
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- Hello, everybody !!!
-
- I have a MIPS 2030 system and a HP laser jet III printer. I
- have intended to connect the MIPS 2030 system and the HP printer with
- the parallel port which is Centronics compatible interface.
- I used /dev/lp as the printer device. And I used lp/model/pprx as the
- printer model when I try with SysV and I also tried to use the printing
- system by bsd43 lpr.
- With the above settings, the printer works well for document files which
- have columms less than 80. But for files which have more than 80
- columns, the printer does not print any character beyond 80th column.
- I sometimes want to print files which have large colummns, but
- the printer does not work for it. Also I tried to copy the document
- file with more than 80 characters per line directly( "cp test_file /dev/lp).
- But the result is the same.
-
- Recently, I found that there must be 3 different files for lp,
- that is /dev/rlp0, /dev/lp0, /dev/Lp0, from the System administrator's
- Reference Manual. I suppose that the file /dev/rlp0 - raw device file -
- can solve our problems. But there is no files except /dev/lp in our
- /dev directory. And I suppose that /dev/lp means /dev/lp0 - canonial
- device - in Reference Manual.
-
- How can solve above problems without /dev/rlp0 ?
- Otherwise can I get above device drivers?
- Or Is there other solutions?
-
- Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-
- jwkim
-
- PS: I wonder if it is a second posting of the same content.
- Because our NNTPSERVER (kum.kaist.ac.kr) had changed
- it's IP address right after my posting... --
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