On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Max Blanco wrote:

Yet when I do # cat > /dev/ttyS1 The quick brown fox. <ctrl-d>

nothing comes out the printhead. Yes, I do have it "online". No, I haven't ever had it work with the macos: I am unable (terminally) to work with iconic macos.

It may need a page flush to start moving.

Any suggestions?

Does Imagewriter II have a powerup self-test in eeprom (like various HP devices I've known?) If so, how do I gain access?

Most (all) intelligent printers have one (winprinters aren't intelligent). Try to hold the button(s) down while cycling the power. Hold them for at least 5 seconds. Try different combinations or look on the internet for more data.

PS If anyone has a working /etc/printcap for a serial port mac printer, I'd appreciate you posting it.

I am sure that you will find one on the net. The 68k Linux users must have managed this a long time ago. FYI the most often encountered nonworking peripheral problem is a bad cable. If you see that things do not behave as they should try another cable first, then everything else. Peter -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml