OT: Linux/CUPS/stair-stepping

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:45:15 -0500):

> I'm trying to print out a diff of some input tables, so I can take it
> with me to lunch (how's *that* for tying something to filepro? :-), and
> I've just configured the LJ1100 on my Windows server to be printable to
> from my laptop, running SuSE 10.2 and CUPS.  I put it in unfiltered
> mode, since that's what one usually does when feeding filePro to CUPS
> and I'm having the problem I usually do:
>
> printing straight from the lp command staircases: there are no CRs with
> the LFs.  filePro does those itself, if you tell it to, but when
> googling through several sets of search results, I find lots of
> people asking, and no one answering.
>
> Does anyone here know what the hot setup is for allowing text files to
> lp correctly to a PCL printer, and still letting filePro itself print
> properly?

There's probably a PCL command to turn on auto-CR, and I suspect that Jim
Asman will post one if it exists.

If you're not including any binary data in your output stream, it may also
be possible to use stty to set the "onlcr" bit, which says "convert NL to
CR-LF".

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