[ILUG] netware printing

[Fergal Daly]

At 14:58 08/03/00, Michael Griffin wrote:

>Someone mailed about being able to print to netware printers
>using nprint.  I can also do this, but it comes out in a
>staircase.  A really bad one at that.
>It prints the first line and instead of going to the start
>of the next line to start printing, it just jumps down a
>line.
>
>Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

Unix text format: every line ends in a line feed, which is exactly what the 
printer is doing, a line feed. What you also want is a carriage return. 
Translating the text with something like

perl -pe 's/\n/\r\n/g'

should do the trick, you could do this by printing like this

perl -pe 's/\n/\r\n/g' < file_to_print | lpr

or by inserting this perl command as a filter or preprocessor into your 
printing system for anything headed for the netware printer,

Fergal

P.S. It can also be done with a similar sed command if you don't like perl, 
but I couldn't get it to work.