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Re: Connecting To ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Fri Oct 25 05:46:33 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:44:18 -0400
From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, October 25, 1996 12:12:27 +0300
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"KSA" == Khalid S Al-Khater <kskhater@qatar.net.qa> writes:
KSA> Also, if you have the time. I'm having problem printing on my =
KSA> deskjet500. I setup the printer correctly from the Control Panel
KSA> and = tested my /dev/lp1 connection by issuing : lptest > /dev/lp1
KSA> and it = prints OK! but printing form X applications does not
KSA> work. I get garbage.
If the X app's are outputting Postscript and the DJ500 doesn't have a
Postscript cartridge (do they even make these for the DJ500?!?) then you
have to convert the Postscript to something that the DJ can understand.
I used to have a filter that did this--there were/are several floating
about--but that was on a 0.99.12+net2e-alpha4 (ahh...life as a guinea
pig for FvK!) system that I finally toasted today and put RH 3.0.3 on.
Sigh...the end of an era--I didn't even need passwords on that system
since I never fixed the 'login -f' bug! <grin--of course it was a
standalone>
--Up, who has _severe_ insomnia tonight and can't find anything better
to do than babble away on the redhat-list....
P.S. Whee! I just found a copy of this hidden on another system. Mind
you, it's *very* old, and is ***unsafe***; it uses /var/tmp in a racey
fashion. It shows the basic concept though....
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
# HP Deskjet 500 - output filter - V 1.2
#
# copyright 1993 by Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.knirsch.de>
#
# Sat Sep 18 18:57:26 GMT 1993
# where do you have diskspace
#
TmpDir=/var/tmp
# Temp. filename
TmpFile=$TmpDir/deskjetof.$$
# Who should be notified by e-mail in case of print problems ?
NOTIFY=root
# write print data from stdin to temp file
cat - > $TmpFile
#
# reset printer to power on values before print job
#
echo -ne '\033E'
# determine file type
# set output of the ``file'' command to new script arguments $1, $2, ..., $n
#
set -- `file $TmpFile`
# throw away $1 since that is the *file name*
#
shift
# the rest is a "string" which consist of one or multiple words
# describing the file type. For example: "Korn Shell Script"
#
FileType=$*
case $FileType in
PostScript*) #
# pipe ps data through ghostscript
#
/bin/cat $TmpFile \
| /usr/bin/gs -q \
-sDEVICE=deskjet \
-r300 \
-sPAPERSIZE=letter \
-dNOPAUSE \
-sOutputFile=- \
- \
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/quit.ps \
|| echo -ne '\033&l0H'
# ^ if an error occurs, then
# | eject already loaded paper
;;
*text*|*script*) #
# print normal text with
# - cr/nl conversion
# - letter quality
# - 66 lines/page
# - left margin
# - 12 cpi pitch
#
# LINE TERMINATION \E & k # G
# 0 = CR=CR ; LF=LF ; FF=FF (default)
# 1 = CR=CR+LF; LF=LF ; FF=FF
# ** 2 = CR=CR ; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF
# 3 = CR=CR+LF; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF
echo -ne '\033&k2G'
# QUALITY \E ( s # Q
# 1 = draft = 240cps
# ** 2 = letter = 120cps (default)
# echo -ne '\033(s2Q'
echo -ne '\033(s1Q'
# Text Scale Mode \E & k # W
# 5 = off (default)
# 6 = on
# ignored in landscape mode
# echo -ne '\033&k5W'
# Perforation Skip Mode \E & l # L
# 0 = off = 0.0 in Top Margin
# 1 = on = 1/2 in Top Margin (default)
# echo -ne '\033&l0L'
# Left Margin \E & a # L
# # Valu^ = column number
# default = 0 = 1/8 in left margin
# used = 7 for 1" left margin
# echo -ne '\033&a7L'
# Pitch \E ( s # H
# # = cpi
# default = 10 characters per inch
# ** 12 cpi
# echo -ne '\033(s12H'
# print tmp file
/bin/cat $TmpFile
;;
*data*) #
# print binary files
#
# LINE TERMINATION \E & k # G
# ** 0 = CR=CR ; LF=LF ; FF=FF (default)
# 1 = CR=CR+LF; LF=LF ; FF=FF
# 2 = CR=CR ; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF
# 3 = CR=CR+LF; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF
echo -ne '\033&k0G'
# print tmp file
/bin/cat $TmpFile
;;
*) #
# Rest is an unknown file type ...... sorry ;-)
#
echo "deskjetof: unknown filetype $FileType" > /dev/console
echo "deskjetof: $TmpFile: unknown filetype $FileType" \
| mail $NOTIFY
NotOk=1
;;
esac
#
# keep print job, that couldn't be printed because of errors....
#
if [ ! "$NotOk" = "1" ]
then
rm -f $TmpFile
fi
#
# reset printer to power on values after print job
#
echo -ne '\033E'
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