OT: Linux/CUPS/stair-stepping

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:59:45AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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".

The printer is physically attached to a Windows 2000 server, where I
don't think I have stty.  :-)

And while I can possibly modify the printer's internal environment, I
will likely then be screwing it up for everyone who isn't me. 

Cheers,
-- jra
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