Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: LaserJet as Printer Replacement Message-ID: <1171@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 16-May-85 09:04:39 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1171 Posted: Thu May 16 09:04:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 01:31:29 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 15 From: ihnp4!alberta!auvax!derrick@uw-beaver.arpa (Derrick Rowlandson) I can't figure out how to post to fa. newsgroups so i'm hoping this gets through We have a Lazerjet and have not been able to run it on our UNIX system, due to the lazerjet using the extended Roman character set(8 bit characters) and our Vax(running 4.2) uses only seven data bits with Mark parity. This mark parity causes the 8th bit to be allways a one, so the HP is allways printing from it's extended Roman char. set.We've tried 'stty -even -odd' which should give us space parity but it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions on how to get the HP running on UNIX or on how to post this to fa.lazer-lovers???? Any help is greatly appreciated. derrick