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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Kermit95 and Printing
Date: 24 Apr 2001 21:29:22 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <3AE5F080.39E90208@srv.net>, Kevin Handy <kth@srv.net> wrote:
: I'm helping a client set up kermit95 on PC's (to connect to an
: Alpha/VMS system), and am having printing problems.
:
: The program sends escape sequences for the printer while in printer
: passthrough mode, which works fine on real VT??? terminals, and k95
: when going to a DOS device.
:
: However, they want to be able to use the printer port to send to a
: windows que printer. When I try this, windows 98 does very bad
: things. It takes the print job, and sends it to the printer a few
: lines per page (aparently every time the printer port is turned on/off
: it does a page break, instead of waiting for the printer timeout
: value), and all the escape sequences are stripped out/rudely mangled.
:
: Is there some way around these problems?
:
See the file:///C|/K95/DOCS/manual/printer.htm (replace path by wherever
K95 was installed if not C:\K95\). Read about the SET PRINTER switches,
particularly:
/TIMEOUT[:number]
The number of seconds to wait after the host "closes" the printer
before terminating the print job if the printer is not opened
again during the specified amount of time. Normally 0, meaning to
terminate the print job right away. Specify a positive number
after the colon; if you omit the colon and number, 0 is used.
Example of usage: some host applications print a series of lines
by opening and closing the printer for each line, which would
create a print job for each line, which in the worst case, might
wind up printing each line on a separate page; use this option to
"merge" the lines into a single print job.
- Frank