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--- "Manuel A. McLure" <manuel@××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Monday 23 January 2006 07:20 pm, maxim wexler |
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> wrote: |
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> > This time the printer whirred to life printed the |
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> > first line of text across the very top of the |
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> paper |
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> > then quit with the orange error light blinking. |
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> BTW, |
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> > this is a DeskJet 612C using the hpijs driver. |
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> What I expect is happening is that the text file has |
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> only linefeeds (\n or |
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> ASCII 0x0a) instead of carriage return/linefeed |
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> (\r\n or ASCII 0x0d 0x0a) so |
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> the head is never getting the command to go back to |
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> the start of the line and |
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> the line length "overflows." This is one reason why |
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> "raw printing" can be a |
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> problem. What you really want is a queue that merely |
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> replaces \n with \r\n |
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> instead of a true raw queue. CUPS does not seem to |
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> provide this, instead |
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> preferring to convert to postscript and then to |
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> raster. Personally I don't |
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> see this as a problem, but your needs are probably |
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> different than mine. |
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> One option to solve this is to emerge unix2dos and |
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> use the following command |
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> line: |
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> |
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> unix2dos filetoprint.txt | lp -l |
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After removing and re-installing cups and installing |
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unix2dos got this: |
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heathen@sarawak ~ $ unix2dos environment | lpr -l |
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unix2dos: converting file environment to DOS format |
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... |
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unix2dos: problems converting file environment |
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lpr: error - scheduler not responding! |
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I was sure it was because I had neglected to go to |
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localhost631 first but |
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trying to open the page in firefox got "connection |
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refused" error. |
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Only thing that comes to mind is that when I did |
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emerge -pv cups it said some file(can't recall which) |
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was being blocked by xpdf which I don't use so I |
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removed it and cups went in OK. Long shot. |
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> -- |
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> Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <manuel@××××××.org> |
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> <http://www.mclure.org> |
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> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and |
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> significant law, |
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> no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. |
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> Lovecraft |
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