From: Kai Voigt (kai@depeche.toppoint.de)
Date: 03/21/93 

From: kai@depeche.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt)
Subject: Re: How to make hp500 work under linux?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 08:28:25 GMT

tgao@cs.uiuc.edu (Tong Gao) writes:

>Did anybody get the hp500 printer to work under linux? When I tried to print,
>it prints the LF without CR. Could someone tell me what to do, please?
>Thanks a bunch.

Use this shell-script:

#!/bin/sh
awk '{print $0 "\r"}' $1 > /dev/lp0

Change /dev/lp0 to whatever you have connected your printer to.
Now simply use 'print <filename>' to print the text files.

Kai 

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