From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jaime Herazo B." Subject: Two printing problems Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:06:29 -0500 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020711160629.GC1769@jherazob.myip.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hi. I've been using dosemu to run an accounting package on a place i assist from time to time. I has worked well (apart from the fact that in the console the ascii borders and decorations look weird, but it's no big deal), but this week two new machines were added there, one that had been used to write letters and stuff like that in staroffice (it has Mandrake 7.2 and dosemu 1.0.1-6), named Darwin, and another one, a brand new machine with Mandrake 8.2 (dosemu 1.0.1-8) called Server (it doubles as a file server for the rest now, and i know, it's a dumb name, but it was necessary, long story :) ). Both use lpr because i've had problems with cups and Epson dot-matrix printers, so it's very standard stuff. The problems are: In Darwin, printing doesn't work from dosemu. The config files are correct, it's pointing to the right printer in the printcap (the only one in there anyway), and the user can print directly ("lpr sometextfile.txt" works just fine). Just to be sure i added "c_printer" to that user in the dosemu.users file, but it didn't worked anyway. I used logging as stated in the HOWTO, and i found that the temporary file it creates when ordered to print something is indeed created, but it doesn't print anyway. Thinking it was some permissions issue, i ran it as root and tried to print, with the same results. Not even "type somefile.txt > prn" works. The configfiles are in general the ones that came with the dosemu RPM, and had worked well in the other computers. In server, everything works, but printing has a problem, and is that when printing from dosemu, the printer makes a pause after each text line, making it annoyingly slow. I haven't thoroughly checked this one, as i was dedicated to fixing Darwin, so you can suggest even the obvious. I'm out of ideas, so i'd appreciate suggestions on these problems. --------------------------------------- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive ----- Jaime Herazo Barrios /"\ jherazo at linuxfreemail dot com \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too