printing linux files

printing linux files

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Can anyone help me with a printing problem?
My printer apparently requires both a CR and an LF at the end of every
line, and while it may have a selectable feature to change that, I would
like to leave the printer settings alone. I use it in DOS regularly too.
When I use LPR in Linux to print a text file, say a message received in
Pine or a "print to a local file" item from Lynx, the printer malfunctions
because only an LF appears at the end of each line. I have read a lot of
documentation about LPR, PR, and the like, but find no discussion of this
end-of-line convention. Does anybody know how to tell LPR (or some other
demon (pun intended)) to please use a CR as well as an LF on each line?

Chuck -- Second Sight Software
Now using Linux and PINE

Re: printing linux files

[Jude Dashiell]

Hi Charles,

see if you can find a program called unix2dos on the system.
You send your file through unix2dos then onto the printer and the job is
done.


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jude <jdashiel@clark.net>

Re: printing linux files

[Fredrik Larsson]

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jude Dashiell wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> 
> see if you can find a program called unix2dos on the system.
> You send your file through unix2dos then onto the printer and the job is
> done.
There should be another way as well. There is a file called /etc/printcap
that lets you set printer capabilities. I think there is some option there
that can change the end-of-line behaviour. See man 5 printcap for details.

Fredrik

Re: printing linux files

[wlestes]

The Printing-HOWTO has the information you want.

To summarize:

You need a print filter--a program that accepts your files as input
and adjusts them so your printer can understand them. If you are
running redhat, you might investigate the rhs-printfilters
package. you also might wish to have a look at a package i think is
called dj-printfilters -- on sunsite in pub/Linux/systems/printeing or
something similar.

--will

Re: printing linux files

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi,
Thanks for the info. I am using Slackware, and found some hints in
/etc/printcap, where there is a two line Perl script creating a filter for
adding CR to LF (or rather replacing each LF with CR,LF) and so now I need
to experiment with hooking things together.

Chuck -- Second Sight Software
Now using Linux and PINE

Re: printing linux files

[Jason Castonguay]

Hi there, Charles.

If you are using SlackWare, there is a program called 'todos'.  This
program will take a file and turn the cr's to crlf sequences.  Here's an
example using "file" in substitute for an actual file name:

todos < file > file

This will take the file directed to and output it into the file you
specify.  If you type:

todos < file | lpr

This will output the converted file to the 'lpr' command.

Note: there is a program (fromdos) which does the reverse (converts crlf
sequences to just cr).

I hope this helps.


Best regards,

Jason

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi,
> Thanks for the info. I am using Slackware, and found some hints in
> /etc/printcap, where there is a two line Perl script creating a filter for
> adding CR to LF (or rather replacing each LF with CR,LF) and so now I need
> to experiment with hooking things together.
> 
> Chuck -- Second Sight Software
> Now using Linux and PINE
> 
> 
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Re: printing linux files

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Jason,
Many thanks for the info on todos and fromdos. Just what I was looking
for!


Chuck -- Second Sight Software
Now using Linux and PINE

Re: printing linux files

[wlestes]

For the curious, one can implement todos and fromdos as follows

sed 's/$/
/'

(yes, that's a literal carriage return before the final /)

and

tr -d '\r'

--will

Editing through a Terminal?

[Alfred Puzzuoli]

Hi,
I'm a relative newbie to Linux so may be covering ground that has already
been dealt with here.  I don't have a linux box of my own as of yet but do
have access to a couple on the net.  The problem that I'm having is that
when I'm connected to one of these via telnet, I'm finding that it's almost
impossible to accurately edit any files.  I am doing this from dos, with
artic Business vision for access. I have used two terminal programs,  Cutcp
telnet, and Mskermit.  i  have checked my local and remote terminal
settings and to the best of my knowledge, they're both correctly set to
vt100.  The editor with which I have been working is Pico.  The problem is
that if I arrow accross a line of text, Artic  will not accurately track
the cursor.  As I arrow, characters are spoken; However the last character
spoken, is usually not the last character upon which the cursor is resting.
 Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might get around this?   I've
resorted to downloading files to my machine, editing them and then
uploading them to the linux box once again.  Any help would be appreciated.

REgards,

Al


Regards,

Al

Re: Editing through a Terminal?

[Charles Hallenbeck]

The problem is not intrinsic to Linux or to the use of terminals... I
access my Linux box through a serial terminal connection and use VI with
no difficulty. However my serial terminal is hard wired and does not need
a telnet connection. Telix is the software on the terminal, with our
provox screen reader.
You might try occasionally entering "control L" to "repaint the screen"
and see if that gets things back into synch.

Chuck -- Second Sight Software
Now using Linux and PINE

Re: printing linux files

[Luke Davis]

There is todos/fromdos, unix2dos/dos2unix, and d2u/u2d.
They all work.
The latter two sets can be obtained from sunsite; I don't know about
(to|from)dos.

Re: printing linux files

[Charles Hallenbeck]

The first two were included in Slackware 3.5 and solved my problem nicely.
Since Pine pipes its text to a print command, I simply made my print
command "todos | lpr" and it works fine. Lynx on the other hand wants a
command that references "%s" so that one became "todos < %s | lpr" and
that one works fine also. On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Luke Davis wrote:

> There is todos/fromdos, unix2dos/dos2unix, and d2u/u2d.
> They all work.
> The latter two sets can be obtained from sunsite; I don't know about
> (to|from)dos.
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Chuck -- Second Sight Software
Now using Linux and PINE