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In article <3929@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
<In article <4353@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>You will need to send to output to a PostScript printer that has a parallel
<>port, and not a serial port.  Binary data cannot be sent through a serial
<>port, plain and simple.  Too many problems.  Things like Xmodem work because
<>there is a program on each end that works with serial ports to transfer data
<>in binary (or what is know as Unix raw mode).  But, with a printer, raw mode
<>can't be used, otherwise XON/XOFF woudln't work for software handshaking.
<
<Sorry Michael, this is really close to being 100% bogus...
<
<Raw has nothing to do with 8 bit.  Except in really primitive (V7 or
<older pure BSD) systems.
<
<Any system that supports termio or termios (System V, SunOS, HPUX, AIX,
<*anything* with any pretensions of being Posix compliant) can go to 8 bit
<and transmit *any* byte from 0x00 through 0xff without going "raw" or even
<"cbreak" or losing XON/XOFF flow control.  It's just a "stty cs8 -opost".
<(8 bit, plus no output processing - tab expansion, and \n processing
<must be disabled.)

Sorry, didn't know that it changed.  Thanks for the info.  I was used to the
old BSD stuff that I worked on.  Good news though.

<The original poster's problem is actually making sure that the *printer*
<doesn't barf on control characters.  Like having 0x03 in an image causing
<the printer to abort the job.  As others have mentioned, *some* printers
<can't manage this.

At least I got something right. :-)
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