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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS & HP Laserjet
Keywords: PC-NFS, HP Laserjet
Message-ID: <859@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 13 Oct 89 08:42:29 GMT
References: <7612@bunny.GTE.COM> <900@east.East.Sun.COM> <652@pbseps.UUCP>
Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jarfalla, Sweden
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In article <652@pbseps.UUCP> perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:

>We use LaserJets and PostScript printers as shared printers for our
>PC-NFS users.  For the LaserJet to use downloadable fonts you must set
>the tty port on you print server (i.e. your UNIX/NFS box) to pass 8
>bits, this generaly means raw mode & hardware handshaking, but some
>systems, SYS V I think, will let you use "stty pass8").

4.3BSD uses "stty pass8". System V has a more fine-grained tty driver so that
output/input character handling is decoupled from the interface details
(such as #data bits, parity, stop bits, speed etc). Therefore, a System V
machine will always transmit 8 bits without resorting to "raw" mode if the
interface is set to 8 data bits (w or w/o parity). Furthermore, software
handshake will work just fine, since flow control is a separate parameter
in the tty driver and isn't coupled to some special "mode".

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
	  ERBE DATA AB