[cups.general] Printing to a file from FoxPro on Dosemu

[Franz Pförtsch]

It seems, your printjob is preformated with ascii control codes.

Your printer talks a normal printerlangauage like ESP/2 or PCL, then you
can print out raw.

That mean
lp -o ras <printjob>

regards
Franz

Randall Smith wrote:

> I'm sending this again, because it did not seem to go through the first
> time.
> 
> My objective is to be able to print to a file and to a postscript
> printer from FoxPro on Dosemu.  I do have printing working, but have
> problems.
> 
> For printing to a file, I'm using the cups-pdf plugin.  The pdf files
> are being created, but they are blank.  I've configured the print
> command both as "lpr" and "lpr -l" with the same result.
> 
> When I print to a postscript printer, It uses 50 pages of paper for a
> job that should use 1 or 2 pages.  This printer prints a proper test
> page from cups.
> 
> I suspect this is a characterset problem as referenced in the cups
> section of the resource below.
> 
> http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/dosemu.html
> 
> When I send output directly to a file in FoxPro, I have wierd characters
> such as this:
> 
>     ^[EPub_ws^[F
>     11/22/2005
> 
> If it is the problem referenced in the Dosemu for Dummies article, that
> I need a filter.  The procedure referenced is for lpd.  How might I go
> about this for CUPS?
> 
> Randall