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Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] printing in ver 0.9.5 on win2k

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From: "Lehrer, Neil (OIG/OAS)" <nlehrer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:41:12 -0400
yes, print a packet.  and ethereal is set for plain text.  and the output is not postscript just not understandable.  printer is an hp lj 1200 with pcl 6.

so i tried to print it on our networked postscript printer.  i set the ethereal settings to ps.  the printer printed the ps file with ps codes, not the final version.

needless to say, both printers seem to interact with my win2k laptop normally with other apps.




-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:07 AM
To: Lehrer, Neil (OIG/OAS)
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] printing in ver 0.9.5 on win2k


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:20:15PM -0400, Lehrer, Neil (OIG/OAS) wrote:
> i just tried to print a packet on my locally attached pcl 6 printer
> and i got a page of symbols.

Is that "print a packet" as in "control-P", printing a single packet?

If so, I tried it with 0.9.5 at work, printing to a networked HP
PostScript printer on Windows 2000, and it worked.

I also tried it to a local printer at home, with the current CVS code,
and it worked.

There were some bugs fixed in that code since 0.9.5; I wouldn't expect
them to cause that problem, but perhaps they would.

Note also that your preferences for printing should be for printing as
plain text, not PostScript, on Windows if you want control-P to work.