Hi Richard,
Am Sonntag, 2. November 2003 07:39 schrieben Sie:
> Dear Claudia:
>
> It looks as if the printing is solved, thanks primarily to you! I took
> another look at your posting in the mail archive and started from scratch
> again, trying to follow your instructions exactly. While I have a
> solution,, it was not exactly based on your recommendations, and you may be
> interested and/or know why. Here is what I did:-
>
> 1) Create a 'raw print stream' printer as you say. The name of this
> printer seems to be critical. I have not been able to get any name other
> than "lp" to work.
> Note: The only reason my similar effort of 2 days ago did not work now
> seems to be that i was using (you may remember) the name 'DOSraw'. Even
> though this name was matched by editing 'dosemurc' of course, it still
> fails. the only name I have so far been able to get to work is the default
> 'lp'. Do you have any idea why? May this mean that there is some built-in
> default name that must be changed via global.conf?
some time ago I experienced the problem, that the "raw" printer in CUPS should
be the first printer in the line in /etc/printcap and the default printer in
CUPS. I don't know if this is still necessary.
In my installation with CUPS I name the printer "raw" and tell it to DOSemu
with
$_printer ="raw"
If this doesn't function as wanted you can use global.conf in /etc/dosemu (as
root):
copy the file global.conf.example to global.conf and change the lines:
ipxsupport $_ipxsupport
novell_hack $_novell_hack
if (strlen($_printer))
foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
$xxx = "'-P", $xxx, "'";
printer { options $$xxx command "lpr" timeout $_printer_timeout }
done
endif
to
ipxsupport $_ipxsupport
novell_hack $_novell_hack
if (strlen($_printer))
foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
$xxx = "'-P", $xxx, "'";
printer { options $$xxx command "lp -d raw" timeout $_printer_timeout
}
done
endif
and leave out $_printer ="" in $HOME/.dosemurc altogether
> 2) Where I differ with your instructions is that with CUPS under RedHat, at
> least, you should not attempt to copy any printcap files manually (indeed
> /etc/printcap carries warnings against doing so). As I understand it, the
> master printer config file is /etc/cups/printers.conf. The CUPS daemon
> creates /etc/printcap from this master, probably at boot time, or whenever
> it is restarted.
Okay, with my Debian installation there was no /etc/printcap only
/etc/printcap.cups and DOSemu wouldn't print without it.
> 3) Finally, you may remember the 2 suggestions from Anderson that I cc'd to
> you. They did not solve the problem originally, and after successfully
> following your instructions, I have removed both of those changes,
> apparently without ill-effect, though I am still testing.
>
> Does all the above make sense to you? If so, I thought I would send a
> summary posting to the list as it might help someone else.
As I said before we need a better documentation. I am working on it.
cu
Claudia
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