John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > Ok...I rebooted, (so I could see what I was typing) and logged in as
> > "root" and set up my plain 24-pin dot-matrix printer as a standard
> > text-only printer. I selected it and told Linux to print a test page,
> > which it did. Only problem I have now is that I need to enable
> > form-feed and the only thing I can find in man 5 printcap is how to
> > DISABLE form-feed.
> > Can someone tell me what I need to do here?
> > Thanks...
> > John
> >
> PS...please don't tell me to RTFM or RTM or whatever.... I *have*
> tried and unless you can give me some SPECIFICS on what to read,
> don't just tell me to read the manual!
> Oh, yeah....the test page says to enable "send EOF" so I guess THAT's
> what I need, not form-feed...
That's right. You need an EOF. Try enabling the 'send EOF' option in the
the printtool!