Proper 4.3BSD printcap entry for Laserwriter

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From: Steve Grandi
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1987 21:21

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How does one set up a proper /etc/printcap for an Apple Laserwriter on a
4.3BSD system?  I want to run TeX output and ditroff output generated by
Pipeline's devps.

I'm not running Adobe Transcript on the 4.3BSD VAX, but I've cribbed the 
printcap entry from a Sun which is, and the entry is as follows:

lp2|lw2:\
	:lp=/dev/lw:\
	:br#9600:rw:fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:mx#0:sf:sb:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lw2:\
	:lf=/usr/spool/lw2/lw-log:

According to my reading of tty(4), the mode bits set CBREAK and TANDEM and
LDECCTQ and LLITOUT.

I can tip to /dev/lw and converse with the laser printer, and I can
"cat file.ps > /dev/lw" and get nice clean output.  Yet if I 
"lpr -Plw2 file.ps", strange things happen.  The Laserwriter's yellow
light blinks for the appropriate amount of time and I can see lights moving
around down inside the cover release cutout; but no pages are printed.

Any ideas?  Any working printcaps?
-- 
Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ, 602-325-9228
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