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["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I got it to print one page... but on the back it said Invoice # 40600
printed ok1;1H25;1HCreating file, reading record #1;1H25;4


And when the 2nd page printed it was not formatted (everything was
stuck together with no spacing

And the application hangs with "Printing to LPT1:"

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Brian K. White <brian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Native printing via SSH
>
>
> > That's precisely what I am trying to figure out. Do you know what the
> > option would be called? The application writes PCL direct to the LPT
> > port so if I can figure a way to block tty access (I don't think it
> > will be an issue the application does nothing else while it prints and
> > in the Windows environment if the printer is not setup correctly the
> > app just hangs). I am trying to avoid forwarding ports or using a
> > VPN... because if each user needs to have their own printer I think
> > this way (with TTY printing) will be easier to mange on the server
> > side.
>
> Then you may be lucky.
> It appears to be possible to tell dosemu to run a command to print.
> In fact it appears to be the default way it prints. (last time I used dosemu
> was sometime in the late 90's and I seem to remember a completely different
> style of config and I seem to remember granting dosemu access to /dev/lp0 ,
> not defining a spooler program.
> But, it looks simple enough.
>
> Try this,
>
> vi /usr/local/bin/ansiprint
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # Print to ansi terminal printer
> stty raw </dev/tty
> echo -en "\033[5i"
> cat "$@"
> echo -en "\033[4i"
> stty cooked </dev/tty
>
> then
> chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/ansiprint
>
>
> Now put this in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf
> $_lpt1 = "ansiprint"
>
>
> The script is used a lot on all my servers so it's heavily tested, but, you
> still may have some issue with the stty commands.
> You can comment them out and the only result will be that print jobs with
> lots of binary raster graphics data will fail.
> For several years I didn't have those lines either and almost a thousand end
> users did 100% of their buisinesses printing that way, so, even that way is
> ok.
>
> The dosemu is untested. However, since the other examples are simply "lpr"
> then I know that dosemu must do one of two things, either it gives a temp
> file on the command line "lpr filename" or it pipes data into the command.
> The script works either of those ways so it should work, as long as you are
> right about the dos app's behaviour. I just did a "zypper in dosemu" and
> looked at the config file. I haven't actually run anything since I'm on the
> road at the moment using a centro as an evdo modem.
>
> If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces :)
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