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From: JOE@oregon.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Dot Matrix Printer Connection Info
Message-ID: <13077@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 89 00:29:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Oregon
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I recently came into a parallel IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer 
(parallel edition) and a Black Box Serial to Parallel converter. Foolish
being that I am, I'd like to be able to hang this printer off my NeXT on
/dev/ttya since I have no other printer directly connected to the machine.

I've read all the relevant NeXT-supplied info, and the printcap and tty(4)
man pages, but for some reason this undertaking has assumed mythical/legendary 
difficulty and has stumped me (and the local UNIX hacks)...

All I want is to be able to say:

    % lpr foo.bar

and have text file foo.bar print on the printer. No PostScript, no graphics,
nothing fancy... Just plain text file output.

The converter between the NeXT and the printer is supposed to be fed 9600 baud 
ASCII with 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit.

If anyone could fix me up with the relevant printcap-format file for netinfo,
and any other info they think might be relevant, I'd be eternally grateful.

[I've looked through past News postings and looked at the November postings
on this topic, but I can't figure out how to get the relevant word length and
parity settings...]

Thanks,

Joe St Sauver (JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU or JOE@OREGON)
Statistical Programmer and Consultant
University of Oregon Computing Center