Path: news1.icaen!news.uiowa.edu!news1.chicago.iagnet.net!qual.net!iagnet.net!chippy.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!ptah.visi.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno From: Dragon King Subject: Re: lpr and deskjet printer In-Reply-To: <6bda9b$kdd$1@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> Message-ID: References: <34D7405C.5D50@unisys.com> <6bda9b$kdd$1@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Lines: 39 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 23:57:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: thumper.visi.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 17:57:03 CST Xref: news1.icaen comp.sys.apple2.gno:6549 On 5 Feb 1998, Devin Reade wrote: > In article <34D7405C.5D50@unisys.com>, MA wrote: > >Does the lpr/lpd printer interface support deskjet printers with a > >56K baud serial interface? I have not been able to get this combination > >to work. > > I'm afraid that I can't tell you much; I don't have a serial deskjet > so I can't debug your setup, either. You can see if Jeff Markham > is still supporting lpr/lpd/lpc. Otherwise the source code is I'll support it as much as I can. I don't have a deskjet of any sort to test with. I did think of something to try since you mentioned it uses 56K baud. Is the baud for .ttyb set right? the only easy way I can think of to check would be to use a test program. I believe it was tc3.c from the termcap library archive. I couldn't locate it on the ftp.gno.org archive so I'm not sure where to get it off hand. For now you could issue the command "stty 57600 < .ttyb" and then try it. If that fixes it I'd suggest adding a line like the following to /etc/inittab pi:b:once:i:/usr/sbin/runover .ttyb /bin/stty 57600 Let us know how that works. This might be something that should be put in the faq. -- \ | _ _|_ _| | Jeff Markham (Dragon King) _ \ _ \ _ \ | -_) | | _` |(_-< | markhj01@visi.com _/ _\ .__/ .__/_|\___| ___|___|\__, |___/ | http://www.visi.com/~markhj01 _| _| ____/ _| ftp.visi.com:/users/markhj01