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From: wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Configuring a Toshiba-p351 printer under ISC-386/ix?
Message-ID: <[430.1]comp.unix.i386;1@point.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 12:00:07 GMT
References: <13510@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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>The Toshiba then printed 132-columns of "X"'s and multiple page-ejects.

That one got me, too.  Your printer is set up to expect a CRLF combination
at the end of each line (which is the way DOS stores ascii files) but unix
stores only the LF character (the "newline" character).

Since you'll probably want to continue to use the printer for DOS under
VP/ix, you should _not_ change the printer switches.  Instead, locate the
file /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces/dumb_1 (whew!) and make the
following change:

                     cat "$file" 2>&1
                     cat "$file" |utod 2>&1

utod is a filter that will convert LFs into CRLFs as the file is printed.
It stands for unix-to-dos.  There's a dtou also, BTW.

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Bill K