embossing files

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 igueths at attbi.com wrote:

> Hi Chuck. Do yo uhave anything related to the blazer set up in /etc/printcap?
> Or do you use some kind of raw option which you pass to lpr?

Neither one. I just type "lpr filename" and away it goes. My
system is a Slackware 8.1 distro, and my braille files are
produced by tbrl, but they are clean ascii with no control codes
other than LF and FF characters.


> >
> > Igor,
> > On my system the lpr command does that nicely.
> > Chuck
> > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Igor Gueths wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all. How would I go about go about embossing translated files I
> > > translated with nfbtrans? I tried catting the file to /dev/lp0 but the
> > > Blazer didn't start embossing. Do I need to send it some handshake
> > > sequence for it to start printing? Has anyone gotten this to work if so
> > > how? Thanks!
> > >
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