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I am not able to print plain text in a correct manner.
When I issue the command "lp -ddestination_printer myfile.txt" the printer prints a page with the following contents:

Feb 24 11:26 2005 myfile.txt Page 1

## Configured using SAM by root on Tue

The line beginning with "##" appears just behind and below the "1" (I was not able to edit it as it appears on paper). The rest is blank

I configured the printer for a HP-UX/Oracle system using SAM. Printing PS is OK, but when I try to print plain text, NO WAY.

I guess it has something to do with the printer configuration file and with a failure to handle the carriage return...

Thank you for your help!!

What printer are you going to, if dot matrix try and printer that maps Cr/lf

Do you have a working printer of the same model?
if so /etc/lp/interface/model.orig
holds the interface scripts.

you may want to try this:

#>tr -d '\r' < textfile > newtextfile

If that still doesn't work, look at the text file using cat -vt

If either don't help, you may need to define a startup.ps which appends a PS header to the file.

Cheers,
LePiaf