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We have  HP laser printer on a LAN we have given the printer an IP
address and can print to the printer.
However when we print documents we are getting out put which appears
like this

Mary had a little lamb
                                His feet were white as snow

And everywhere that mary went

The lamb was sure to go

It seems the printer is only inserting a LF and not a CR at the end of
each line.

Is there some way to change this in UNIX using the lpadmin command?  Is
this relevant to the -m flag
for the lpadmin command?

Other thoughts:

- are you using bsd spooling? you can also change some settings re
linefeeds in these settings
- could also be a setting on your printer's lan card (jetdirect? axis?)

Carl.

that's in linux, but it should work in unix as I recall.  You need to
add any binary or script you write to accomplish this into your printcap
file. check the linux documents on the web.  I recall seeing a shell
script that handles that, and I believe it also explained how to set it
up in printcap too.

Later I surrendered my laserjet and got a new printer.  But not because
of the CR/LF thing.

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One cool thing about liars...
...They always have something nice to say.

Quote:

>We have  HP laser printer on a LAN we have given the printer an IP
>address and can print to the printer.
>However when we print documents we are getting out put which appears
>like this

>Mary had a little lamb
>                                His feet were white as snow

>And everywhere that mary went

>The lamb was sure to go

>It seems the printer is only inserting a LF and not a CR at the end of
>each line.

>Is there some way to change this in UNIX using the lpadmin command?  Is
>this relevant to the -m flag
>for the lpadmin command?

It will use "stty" to translate (map) NL to NL-CR, newline, carriage return
pair. You could also set the printer to doit, but, then you could mess
something else up.

Hope this helps you,

Tony Garcia