Using Transcript software on /dev/mcpp0
Donald Mock
drm at noaacrd.colorado.edu
Mon Mar 19 14:53:21 AEST 1990
Here's the problem: I'm using Sun's Transcript software with a QMS-PS810
laser printer attached to /dev/ttyb on a Sun 4/280 running SunOS 4.0.3
with all the relevant bug fixes. Users are complaining that it takes too
long to print 1MB postscript plot files. So I figure, "Why not use the
ALM-2 parallel port, since the QMS-PS810 also has a parallel port?" It
should be faster than 9600 baud, right? After connecting the thing up, I
can do a 'cat ps_file > /dev/mcpp0' where ps_file is a postscript file.
It comes out fast and correct. But I cannot get Transcript to do anything
with it through 'lpd'. I've tried numerous variations on the
/etc/printcap file with no success. Does anyone have any insight into
this problem? Can it be done? Is it just a matter of making the correct
printcap entry or must the Transcript package be modified as well? Thanks
in advance.
EXAMPLE PRINTCAP:
lw|lp|ps|postscript|PostScript:\
:lp=/dev/mcpp0:sd=/usr/spool/lw:\
:lf=/usr/spool/lw/lw-log:af=/usr/adm/lw.acct:\
:rw:mx#0:sf:sb:\
:if=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/psif:\
:of=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/psof:gf=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/psgf:\
:nf=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/psnf:tf=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/pstf:\
:rf=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/psrf:vf=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/psvf:\
:cf=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/pscf:df=/usr/tran/sparc/lib/psdf:
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