On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 16:22 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage > on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux > and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos > computer? I have a printer queue set up which allows lpr and lp both to > print garbage last time a sighted person took a look dollar signs question > marks and very long lines of text were being printed. This is a grocery > list with one item per line. > >
No , that sounds more like a newline / line carriage issue. Use dos2unix/unix2dos on text files when moving to/from Windows and Linux. Basicly dos doesn't recognize the newline characters. PaulNM