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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Writing serial device drivers
Keywords: serial ttys printers
Message-ID: <9731@alice.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 13:44:44 GMT
References: <11929@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1461@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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In article <1461@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
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>  I can't think of any reason for a program to bypass the queue and
>access the printer directly, and would not do it myself.

Well, I have been using an old (second hand) Epson MX 100 for a long time.
It didn't want to print tabs (maybe i could set tabs, but they were not
set to every 8 chars by default anyway).
So I had the spooler execute pr -t -e to expand the tabs.

Then when i wanted to print bitmaps (i.e. Tex output in my case)
i did a cat > /dev/lp to bypass the tab expansion.

Paul.
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