[lug] Help in setting print parameters

[Holshouser, David]

I'm not really sure how this works, but I've also heard
that you can ftp directly to some printers and upload
to them that way. If this will bypass any filters, then
you are set.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Stimits [mailto:stimits at idcomm.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 3:20 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Help in setting print parameters
> 
> 
> Ernie Stiltner wrote:
> > 
> >                                                 April 13, 2001
> > 
> > How do I get a transparent or direct binary write - no editing, no
> > translations, no character substitutions - to a printer? 
> The system insists a
> > laserjet4l is really something else and gives me escape 
> sequences translated
> > into the \something graphics.
> > 
> > So the usual approach - embed control codes in a print 
> string - gets messed
> > up.
> > 
> > Any suggestions? Or where can I get some detailed info on this?
> 
> This may be a bad idea, but have you tried to cat your file 
> directly to
> /dev/lp0 (or whichever device is your printer character-special-file
> device)?
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> > 
> >  Thanks,
> > 
> >  **************************************************
> >  Ernie Stiltner
> >  stiltner at indra.com
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> >  ***************************************************
> > 
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