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From: brandon@tdi2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V lp setup
Message-ID: <150@tdi2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 21:09:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 19 21:09:05 1987
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References: <343@gssc.UUCP> <219@polyof.UUCP>
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Quoted from <219@polyof.UUCP> ["Re: System V lp setup"], by john@polyof.UUCP...
+---------------
| In article <343@gssc.UUCP>, jdm@gssc.UUCP writes:
| > i hereby cuss and swear vehemently at the UNIX System V (read 3B2) lp setup.
| > when trying to bring up a new printer (a laserwriter) one cannot write a new
| > model and stuff it in the .../lp/model directory and specify it as a new
| > model.  it seems as though lpadmin is HARD CODED to a handful of not very
| > useful model types.  
| > -- jdm
| 
| Granted, the '-m' option may not be what YOU want.  We configured several
| special printers, none of which matched the given models; you must use
| the '-i' option. (LPADMIN(1M)).  For example,
| 	$ /usr/lib/lpadmin -plaser -v/dev/tty10 -i/usr/spool/lp/model/MYLASER_MODEL
+---------------

I have the same complaint.  Certainly you can use -i -- but which is easier
to type?

I now use -e since I use a generic model program written in C and driven off
a pcap file; also looking up config information in a config file for each
printer, to control banners, special forms, etc.  (The major difference
between my setup and printcap is that mine uses arrays:

#
# PCap for Radio Shack LMP-2150 using lpVdriver under System V spooler
#

lmp2150:
	print-modes = 5,
	print-mode = <"80", "96", "132", "wp", "corr">,
	width = <80, 101, 132, 80, 80>,
	RS-backspace,
	RS-bs-width = <12, 12, 12, 20, 20>,
	reset = "\E^T^S",
	default-mode = 2,
	set-mode = <"\E^S^S",
		    "\E^W^S",
		    "\E^T^S",
		    "\E^R^T",
		    "\E^R^S">,
	no-formfeed.

Thus, adding new print modes doesn't take a rewrite of the model program, it
just uses "print-modes" as the maximum index and gets the right mode by
checking its mode argument (passed with -o:  -owp) against the array
print-mode.  (RS-backspace is due to the fact that the LMP backspaces by the
number of dots specified in the next character:  ^H^L is an 80-column (normal
mode) backspace.)

Since I always use this model, I just specify -e(name of existing printer) to
install a new printer with this model.  But I would prefer to use -mlpVdriver
instead.

++Brandon
-- 
``for is he not of the Children of Luthien?  Never shall that line fail, though
the years may lengthen beyond count.''  --J. R. R. Tolkien

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