Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NUSDISCS.BITNET!YEOAK From: YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: printer driver Message-ID: <8909280917.AA28974@umix.cc.umich.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 01:10:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 1) We've a Seikosha dot-matrix printer connected to a SR10.1 node running BSD4.3. We used 'genicom' device driver in our prsvr configuration file. After having setup prsvr & prmgr, our text files can be printed on the Seikosha printer using prf, but almost every printed line is prefixed with 120e0m. (I presume it's genicom printer control code.) Right now we use 'prf -trans' to print our text files, that means we lost all the good features of prf such as -head, -banner & etc. Q: Is there a way to substitute the genicom control codes by other dot-matrix printer control codes? How? Q: Is there a generic device driver available for printing text file on a dot-matrix or line printer which has a serial/RS232 port? 2) I've tried to build a simple device driver by following the example shown in 5.1.2 of "Printing in the Aegis Environment". I encountered the following problem during bind: Unresolved globals: add_db_range_c First referenced in driver_ex.bin add_db_value_c "" get_db_value_c "" inq_entry_c "" Q: Where is the lib for there routines? 3) What is TML as mentioned in "Printing in the Aegis Environment"? 4) We've managed to set up lpd in a separate testing. We're able to get lpr to work w/o prsvr & prmgr. The problem is that the output is in double spacing. Any body knows to fix it? Thanks for your help in advance. --AnnKian Yeo Bitnet: yeoak@nusdiscs