> 
>    Since FreeBSD and NetBSD aren't that different (don't know for
>    sure if /usr/include/sys/termios is the same WRT flags) I post my working
>    /etc/printcap now here:
> 
>    #       @(#)printcap    5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
>    lp0|lp|local laser printer:\
> 	   :lp=/dev/cuaa2:\
> 	   :fc#0xffffffff:fs#0x8600:br#38400:\
> 	   :if=/usr/local/bin/lpif:\
> 	   :of=/usr/local/bin/lpof:\
> 	   :mx#0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> 
> I thought the flags variables (or any numeric variables for that
> matter) were either octal or decimal depending on whether the first
> character was 0 or not.  Am I confused here or can you really use hex,
> also?  That may be part of your problem (but I don't think it was part
> of my original problem).  By the way, what capabilities were you
> intending to invoke?  Also, is it guarrenteed that the bits in fc are
> cleared BEFORE those in fs are set?  Finally, why did you use only
> fc/fs and not xc/xs?

Because DEC Ultrix did it the same way - hmm, you may be right with using
hex causing me problems.

I wanted to set
ixon,ixoff,CLOCAL

> 
> Here is the source code in /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/common_source/printcap.c:
> 
>      /*
>       * Return the (numeric) option id.
>       * Numeric options look like
>       *	li#80
>       * i.e. the option string is separated from the numeric value by
>       * a # character.  If the option is not found we return -1.
>       * Note that we handle octal numbers beginning with 0.
>       */
>      int
>      tgetnum(id)
> 	     char *id;
>      {
> 	     register int i, base;
> 	     register char *bp = tbuf;
> 
> 	     for (;;) {
> 		     bp = tskip(bp);
> 		     if (*bp == 0)
> 			     return (-1);
> 		     if (*bp++ != id[0] || *bp == 0 || *bp++ != id[1])
> 			     continue;
> 		     if (*bp == '@')
> 			     return(-1);
> 		     if (*bp != '#')
> 			     continue;
> 		     bp++;
> 		     base = 10;
> 		     if (*bp == '0')
> 			     base = 8;
> 		     i = 0;
> 		     while (isdigit(*bp))
> 			     i *= base, i += *bp++ - '0';
> 		     return (i);
> 	     }
>      }
> 
> Cheers,
> Brook
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de