topic Re: Staircase problem by printing in Operating System - HP-UX

Staircase problem by printing

Johan den Boer — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 06:11:44 GMT

Hello,

I have a problem by printing to a xerox printer. I need a script to translate a
LF to a CR/LF. Has anyone a script ?

Thanks,

regards

Johan den Boer

Re: Staircase problem by printing

Animesh Chakraborty — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 06:34:48 GMT

Hi,
This link may help you.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x52e0660142b2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Best of luck
Animesh

Re: Staircase problem by printing

Andreas D. Skjervold — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:24:07 GMT

Hi
The HP printers have a printer setting to do this translation automatically (add CR to LF). I do not know if the Xerox have, but check the manual to see if it does.

Andreas

Re: Staircase problem by printing

Eugen Cocalea — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:28:01 GMT

Hi,

Filter the printing command through 'ux2dos'.

E.

Re: Staircase problem by printing

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:11:04 GMT

Hi:

Onr very simple solution is to simply filter through awk within your interface file; nothing more than this:
awk '{printf("%s\r\n",$0)}'

Re: Staircase problem by printing

Darrell Allen — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 13:42:15 GMT

Hello,

A number of printers have a setting to translate the LF to CR/LF if they sense the print file is an ascii file. If you don't find that then I believe Eugen's suggestion to use ux2dos is a good one. Do something like ux2dos file | lp -dprinter

Darrell

Re: Staircase problem by printing

Shannon Petry — Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:06:50 GMT

Because "lpr" is a wrapper, usually I just manually add the ux2dos command into the pipe and tell users to use lpr instead of lp when printing text.

Regards,
Shannon