[ale] Serial Printers/Plotters

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:26:05PM -0400, Bob Kruger wrote:
> Anyone have any good hints on setting up a linux printcap for a serial 
> printer/plotter?  I have an old but reliable HP Draftmaster II that I 
> just moved from a W98 machine to a linux box.  The serial port is 
> already configured.  If I generate a plot file from Autocad, I can run 
> plots by doing the following:
> 
> cat plotfile.plt >> /dev/ttyS1
> 
> All attempts at configuring printcap to handle this have failed.
> 
> Any tips or ideas?

You really ought to skip printtool and edit /etc/printcap by hand.
Try to copy an entry that is there and create a very simply filter.

--- Cut ---
#!/bin/sh

cat -
--- Cut ---

This will assume that you will only be printing plot files.  You could
use printtool to setup a raw printer.  That should work too.




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> Bob
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