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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>
> > sindi keesan wrote:
> > > When I try to cat filename > /dev/lp0 I get the first
> > > line printing across two lines (half a line on each)
> >
> > Try the following:
> > -------------------------------------
> > cat filename | dos2unix -d > /dev/lp0
> > -------------------------------------
> I was trying to print files produced by pico in linux so probably do not need 
> dos2unix.
>
> The first line is ALL that prints.  What I was doing until now was copying 
> the linux file to /tmp/document and printing with wp but this works only 
on a computer with one parport.

I looked in wp and it appears to be assigning the LAST printer port as 
device:
device=`dmesg |grep lp |tail -n1| cut b1-3'

dmesg |grep lp   - lp0: using parport0
                   lp1: using parport1
                   lp1 out of paper  (it is not in use or printer is off)

dmesg |grep lp |tail -n1  :  lp1 out of paper
The whole line inside the ` ` :  lp1

So wp uses the last printer rather than lp0.  How would I change it to use 
lp0 instead of lp1 where I have two lps?  Can I simply edit it to read
device=lp0 ???

In cases of two parports, could you write a script that would choose the 
parport that is NOT 'out of paper' to print to?



I still don't know why when I cat document > /dev/lp0 that will not print.
The lights flash and I hear some noises.  DOS prints as lpt1.  Linux does 
not even load paper - yellow paper light is blinking.  I even tried
cat document |dos2unix - d  (it is a linux document to start with).

I could print 'document' on the computer with one parport (tho cat 
document > /dev/lp0 just produced one line of text from the same linux 
file) but that is temporarily not in service.