Re: getting a printer to print more than just one line

["Peter W." <peterw@clark.net>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, David Robinson wrote:

> I'm trying to get my printer to print more than just one line of text.  
> I'm using lpr david > /dev/lp1 and all I get is one line of text from
> a file that has three lines of text.  

Make sure each the printer is being sent a carriage return (char 13) and a
linefeed (char 10) to terminate each line. It's common for Linux systems
to have "magic filters" set up to do this sort of thing, maybe you don't
have such a filter, or it may be misconfigured?

-Peter



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