What is a EOF or NL

[Paul A. Procacci]

Bob Falanga wrote:
> I have been a long time trying to print anything on freebsd, as some know.
> Everything seems to be working new but nothing is printed. Today I reboot
> the computer and behold a page printed.  This implied to me that the printer
> never receives a New Line or EOF or whatever the printer requires to proceed
> printing what it has just received.
> My question is where do I configure an option to print.

Sounds like to me your print daemon wasn't running.  The reboot started 
it automagically, and henceforth started the job.
As for configuration this depends entirely on the daemon you are using.