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From: Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc>
Subject: Re: printing to cups cups-pdf
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:56:31 -0600
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Randall Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm ultimately trying to have jobs printed from foxpro under dosemu to 
> print to a file.  A postscript file would do, but I've been trying to 
> generate a pdf file.
> 
> I'm using cups and I've tried setting the printer command to "lp -l" in 
> the config and I specified the printer.  When I print from foxpro, a pdf 
> is generated, but it is blank.  Just issuing
> 
> echo 'hello' | lpr -P printername
> 
> works.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can get file output from print jobs?
> 
> Randall
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It seems that it may be a character set issue.  I got FoxPro to print to 
a file and here is a line from it.

     ^[Eworkorder:^[F      010201-004

I think I need some type of character set conversion, but I don't know 
what it should be yet.  Need help.

Randall