Subject: Re: getting there with printing
To: Andrew Crossley <toast@iinet.net.au>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/25/2000 08:43:46
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Andrew Crossley wrote:
> Can't seem to get rid of the header page and i still have
> staircasing under the console. Here is my printcap.
> # $NetBSD: printcap,v 1.4 1997/02/15 10:02:22 mikel Exp $
> # from: @(#)printcap 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
> /usr/local/bin/magicfilter
Despite what the magicfilter manpage may say, I don't think you need
that line...
> lp|local line printer:\
> :sh=true:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:if=/usr/local/libexec/magicfilter/bj200-filter:
Change the "sh=true" to just "sh" to get rid of the banner page. I don't
know about the staircasing, but there's probably some magicfilter
configuration you can do for that (I've never used magicfilter and know
nothing about it :)
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