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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers lp -o <option> doesn't work Post 302245630 by jim mcnamara on Friday 10th of October 2008 02:47:46 PM
Old 10-10-2008
Wendyz -
From your other thread - your Fujitsu printer responds to EPSON printer commands:
SI is ascii 15 - DC2 is ascii 18

SI turns on condensed mode printing.
DC2 turns off consdensed mode printing.

You will have to embed an SI character - not a literal "SI" but as an unreadable character as the first character in your document. The last character will have to be a DC2. Also unreadable.

Assuming you are not in some bizarre shell and you have a document to print.
Let's assume the document is in a file named docfile. And that you want to keep docfile on disk without weird characters in it.
Code:
echo "\017" > tmp
cat docfile >> tmp
echo "\022" >> tmp
lp -d myprinter tmp

You do not need a -o <option> You are forcing the options yourself.

\017 is the SI character, \022 is the DC2 character. You need quotes around them like this: "\017" The "name value" of the character is 017, but you need a backslash in front of it so unix sees it as an octal value, not a literal character.

I'm surprised your syadmin can't setup cups to drive the printer for you.

Finally - suppose you don't like compressed mode, you want a different font setting.
Then you get to go to websites:
one with octal (the \017 thing) values for characters:
Ascii Table - ASCII character codes and html, octal, hex and decimal chart conversion

one with the epson manual for printer control codes:
http://support.epson.ru/products/man...0350/part1.pdf

You then need to read the manual, get the control code sequences you want - finally embed them in your document. Many of the sequences are several weird characters all together, and many of them start with the escape character - so we call them "escape codes" or "escape sequences"
 

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untex

UNTEX(1)						      General Commands Manual							  UNTEX(1)

NAME

       untex - strip LaTeX comands from input

SYNOPSIS

       untex [ options ] [ files ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Untex removes some LaTeX commands from the files listed in the arguments (or standard input) and prints the output to standard output.

OPTIONS

       -      read from standard input.

       -o     remove options to LaTeX commands, i. e. everything in brackets [] behind a command.

       -i     process "include{file}" and "input{file}" and "input file" commands.

       -m     (try to) remove all math code.

       -u     replace all "a (etc.) with ibm (CP850) characters.

       -uiso  replace all "a (etc.) with ISO characters.

       -uascii
	      replace all "a (etc.) with ascii characters.

       -g     replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ibm (CP850) characters.

       -giso  replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ISO characters.

       -gascii
	      replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ascii characters.

       -e     remove environment names.

       -a     remove arguments of commands (not recommended).

       -g implies -u, -a implies -o.

SEE ALSO

       latex, tex, detex

BUGS

       The  -g	and  -u options only work for german accented characters. Not fixed due to lack of time, any help is appreciated. The includeonly
       command is ignored.

       Using -u option in a UTF-8 terminal doesn't work. Using it alone in a Latin1 terminal doesn't work either, you must also add -uiso.

AUTHORS

       Untex was written by Michael Staats (michael@hal6000.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE). The -gascii and -uascii options  were  added	by  Denis  Endisch
       (denis@smoky.ikf.physik.uni-frankfurt.de).   Thanks to Subhasish Mazumdar (mazumdar@ringer.cs.utsa.edu) for some hints for improvements and
       bug reports.

4th Berkeley Distribution				     Version 1.2 1994 April 6							  UNTEX(1)
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