Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!fthood!egray
From: egray@fthood.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Configuring a Toshiba-p351 printer
Message-ID: <11500003@fthood>
Date: 23 Nov 89 01:38:53 GMT
References: <1@<[430>
Lines: 28
Nf-ID: #R:<[430:1:fthood:11500003:000:1248
Nf-From: fthood.UUCP!egray    Nov 21 08:08:00 1989


> >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.

Ah yes, but there is a switch setting that works for both DOS and Unix.
Switch 2 position 4 is the "carriage return on paper movement" function.
It will translate a \n to \n\r for you.  In, DOS a \n\r will come out
\n\r\r, but that won't effect output.

Emmet P. Gray				US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
...!uunet!uiucuxc!fthood!egray		Attn: AFZF-DE-ENV
fthood!egray@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu		Directorate of Engineering & Housing
					Environmental Management Office
					Fort Hood, TX 76544-5057