Novice printer question: /n and <CR><LF>s

[Douglas J Freyburger]

The printer on my new Ultrix system sends a linefeed but no
carriage return for every newline in the file being
printed.  The cursor quickly pegs on the right margin.  I
have tried several values in the /etc/printcap entry for
"fs" including "fs#24" as supplied by DEC and "fs#06320" as
recommended by DEC and used on a couple of machines here,
but to no avail.  Setting CRMOD or not doesn't seem to
work.  The printer is an Ancient DECwriter III, but
swapping the line to a VT100 does the same thing.  The
current /etc/printcap entry is:

lp|The old DECwriter:\
  :fs#06320:br#1200:lp=/dev/ttyh0:\
  :of=/usr/lib/lpd:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

Any suggestions on what I am missing?

P.S.  Thanx to all the answers I got about translating file
pointers to file names.  I have seen various Emacs's doing
it, but I didn't realize what problems were involved.
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Doug Freyburger		DOUG at JPL-VLSI,
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