[ale] Serial Printers/Plotters

[Geoffrey]

Bob Kruger wrote:
> Anyone have any good hints on setting up a linux printcap for a serial 
> printer/plotter?  I have an old but reliable HP Draftmaster II that I 
> just moved from a W98 machine to a linux box.  The serial port is 
> already configured.  If I generate a plot file from Autocad, I can run 
> plots by doing the following:
> 
> cat plotfile.plt >> /dev/ttyS1
> 
> All attempts at configuring printcap to handle this have failed.

What dist. are  you running?  What print driver? (cups, lprng...)

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