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From: YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET
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Subject: printer driver
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Date: 29 Sep 89 01:10:00 GMT
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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