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Article #2869Re: Help zapping a printer
From: Tom Schneider
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 1990 18:42
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 1990 18:42
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In article <2626@unccvax.uncc.edu> royster@unccvax.UUCP (David Royster) writes:
>So try ASCII 4. Create a file containing that one character and send it to
>the printer to reset it.
I tried:
echo "\004" | lpr -Plaser
and
echo "\\004" | lpr -Plaser
but they didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion. Erik (ejb@Think.COM), who
had experience with a similar printer, kindly suggested directly sending a
Control-D in a file, but this didn't work either. :-( Any other ideas?
Tom Schneider
National Cancer Institute
Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
toms@ncifcrf.gov
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