NEC LC-890 in hp emulator mode

[GL4 at PSUVM.BITNET]

i have an NEC LC-890 hooked up to a unix machine (Celerity) running
BSD 4.2 ... the NEC has a mode to emulate an HP laserjet+, but i can't
get it to work ... if you feed it a file that looks like:

       whaa
       whaa
       whaa

it will print out:

      whaa
          whaa
              whaa

and eventually just run off the end of the paper for files with longer lines.

it seems like it's just not getting the carriage return (obviously). i've
called both Celerity and NEC, and they basically said, "duh".

help??? anyone???

                 thanks,

                        Garth Longdon
                        Penn State Statistics Dept.