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From: sunloop!oconnor!porsche!miker@central.sun.com (Mike Raffety)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: LaserWriter II baud rate question
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 21 Apr 89 06:34:23 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 233, message 4 of 14

We run several of our LaserWriters at 19,200 baud; if you've succeeded
with changing the printer itself to a higher baud rate, all you need to do
is set the "br" parameter in your printcap to indicate the different speed
(e.g., "...:br#19200:...").  You do NOT need to do anything with /etc/ttys
or /etc/gettytab, except to make sure that that port is DISABLED (i.e., no
getty running on it); they are ignored by the printing subsystem.

Sun-3s support speeds up to 38,400 baud; even if Sun won't say so, they
wrote the software (stty, lpd, getty, etc.) to allow it.