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I have a problem setting up a filter for a HP4si (and HP3si) printer
for printing simple ascii files.

I know that I can use a2ps to convert the ascii file to postscript and
then send it... but I would like to be able to use simple text editors
to send it and have the filter applied automatically.

Advise please... with some examples.

Thanks in advance.

Andrew.

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Quote:> I have a problem setting up a filter for a HP4si (and HP3si) printer
> for printing simple ascii files.
> I know that I can use a2ps to convert the ascii file to postscript and
> then send it... but I would like to be able to use simple text editors
> to send it and have the filter applied automatically.
> Advise please... with some examples.
> Thanks in advance.
> Andrew.

pcl|lp4:\
        :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
        :sd=/var/spool/ljet2p-raw:\
        :lf=/var/spool/ljet2p-raw/log:\
        :af=/var/spool/ljet2p-raw/acct:\
        :if=/usr/home/andrsn/bin/setup:\
        :mx#0:\

The "if" line above calls a script file "setup" that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

printf " E &k3G" && cat && printf "\f" && exit 0
exit 2

so when I want to print I just type lpr -Ppcl filename
In the above, the ^[ before the E (if it made it through Usenet)
is a decimal 027 entered in vi (in insert mode) with ctrl-V<esc>

The directory in which this file resides needs to have 755 permissions.

Here's another option--a shell script called qp (for quick print) that
prints a file with the command qp filename

#!/bin/sh

awk -f ~/bin/qp.awk $1 | lpr

This above shell script calls qp.awk and sends the file to the
printer; here's qp.awk:

BEGIN {
        printf(" E &k3G (s0p12v0s0b3T &a06L")
        }
$0 ~ (/\n/)
        {print}
END {
        printf(" E")

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Here's another awk script, called in a similar manner, that changes
tabs to spaces, good for printing code that would otherwise fall off
the page, because the Laserjets I use think a tab deserves 8 spaces:

BEGIN {
        printf(" E &k3G (s0p12v0s0b3T &a04L")
        TABLEN = "  "
        }
$0 ~ (/\n/)
        {
        if ( match($0,/^[ \t]+/ ))
                {
                gsub(/\t/,TABLEN,$0 )
                print $0}
        else print $0}
END {

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So there are some examples.

Annelise