On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: > So I have tried to use tip to connect to this old printer, and it > seems less than responsive. tip will connect but that I can't use > any escapes: I have to kill the tip process from another session. > I did successfully get the printer to identify itself after I > power-cycled it, but that was it. > > tip was unable to do anything else for me and subsequent > connections required me to kill the process. The baud rates should > be OK (I am using 57600).
Dunno if an old serial printer can go even that fast; it isn't really necessary for it to support a rate faster than it can print, which could be much less. Handshake could also be a problem. Serial cables have always been a pain, serial *printer* cables even more so. I'd start with 9600 baud and XON/XOFF handshake, then work up to faster rates and hardware handshake if the printer supports it (Mac serial mini-DIN connectors are missing some of the standard non-standard serial pins.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
