Bug 16065

Summary:	small note about HP printers.
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	nik
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Dom Mitchell 2000-01-11 16:20:00 UTC

	I've added a useful hint about configuring HP laserjets to the
	printing chapter of the handbook.

Fix: Here's the patch.



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--- printing/chapter.sgml.orig	Tue Jan 11 15:59:40 2000
+++ printing/chapter.sgml	Tue Jan 11 16:02:38 2000
@@ -3740,7 +3740,11 @@
 	  the discussion below is the printer itself, and the
 	  <emphasis>printer name</emphasis> is the name you configured for the
 	  printer.  See the documentation that accompanied your printer and/or
-	  printer-network interface.</para>
+	  printer-network interface.  Note that if you are using a
+	  Hewlett Packard Laserjet, then the printer name
+	  <literal>text</literal> will automatically perform the LF to
+	  CRLF conversion for you, so you will no longer require the
+	  hpif script above.</para>
 	    
 	<para>Then, on the other hosts you want to have access to the printer,
 	  make an entry in their <filename>/etc/printcap</filename> files with
How-To-Repeat: 
	Apply the patch.

Comment 1 alex 2000-01-11 16:32:29 UTC

Thus spake Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk (Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk):

> -	  printer-network interface.</para>
> +	  printer-network interface.  Note that if you are using a
> +	  Hewlett Packard Laserjet, then the printer name
> +	  <literal>text</literal> will automatically perform the LF to
> +	  CRLF conversion for you, so you will no longer require the
> +	  hpif script above.</para>

Hmm. I have a HP Laserjet 4, and I need this script.

I've tried it without it, and - huuu - it was just LF without CR.
What a sudden.

so this patch is a little wrong or such?

Alex

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I doubt, therefore I might be.

Comment 2 Dom Mitchell 2000-01-11 17:38:12 UTC

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 05:32:29PM +0100, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk (Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk):
> 
> > -	  printer-network interface.</para>
> > +	  printer-network interface.  Note that if you are using a
> > +	  Hewlett Packard Laserjet, then the printer name
> > +	  <literal>text</literal> will automatically perform the LF to
> > +	  CRLF conversion for you, so you will no longer require the
> > +	  hpif script above.</para>
> 
> Hmm. I have a HP Laserjet 4, and I need this script.
> 
> I've tried it without it, and - huuu - it was just LF without CR.
> What a sudden.
> 
> so this patch is a little wrong or such?

Interesting.  I found this on HP's web site a while back and it works on
all the printers at our site.

I can't seem to find it now, I'll try again later...
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Comment 3 nik freebsd_committer

2000-02-14 01:25:40 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks.