[ale] Serial Printers/Plotters

[bkruger at mindspring.com (Bob Kruger)]

Geoffrey;

Running LPRng on a Slackware v9.0 box, kernel 2.4.20.

Bob

Geoffrey wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> What dist. are  you running?  What print driver? (cups, lprng...)
>


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