When we were still using redhat 9, I made it a habit to uninstall cups
and then install LPRng — heck, I’ve started doing that on rhel3, using
the LPRng rpm packages from the redhat 9 install media!
A more modest solution is to enhance your startshp command to do a
pipeline inside the parentheses — instead of (lpr -Pmyprinter ) do
(/usr/bin/addff | lpr -Pmyprinter) where your shell script
/usr/bin/addff is
#!/bin/bash
# copy standard in to standard out, then emit a formfeed character.
/bin/cat
/bin/echo -en ‘\f’
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f the INSTALL has already been completed, you can use the GNOME front
end to SWITCH PRINTING SYSTEMS.
Click on START / SYSTEM SETTINGS / MORE SYSTEM SETTINGS and then
PRINTER SWITCHING TOOL.
This will automatically swap CUPS for LPR, and move all the necessary
LINUX files to their new locations.
RAW printing should then be FINE, and change 3rd item in your STARTPTR
to 1.
John
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