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Subject:    Re: Help Zapping a LaserWriter
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Monday, 27 Aug 1990 11:55:14 EDT
From: <SMITHM@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <90239.115514SMITHM@QUCDN.BITNET>

I tried to send this directly to Tom but the mailer punted it back at me.


In the /etc/printcap file you can define a trailing string that the
line printer daemon will append to each job.  I don't have Unix manuals
with me but the option is something like:

   :tr=\004

Add the above sequence to the entry for your PS printer and life should
improve.  (Check your manual to verify the sequence.  My recollection is
that /etc/printcap is *very* fussy about things like spaces and blank lines.
There's also some syntactic convention to indicate a description continues
on the next line.  Perhaps a backslash at the end of the line?)

Also, if your printer is waiting for a CTRL-D, you should see the green Ready
lamp flashing on the LaserWriter.  If the CTRL-D arrives intact, the lamp
will stop flashing indicating that the printer is idle.

 Mike Smith                                  SMITHM@QUCDN.BITNET
 Queen's University                          Michael.D.Smith@QueensU.CA
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