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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MSK 3.14: set printer lpt1:
Message-Id: <1995Oct16.125213.63886@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 95 12:52:13 MDT
References: <45tv34$pq5@ccs-sparc2.queensu.ca>
Organization: Utah State University
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In article <45tv34$pq5@ccs-sparc2.queensu.ca>, mike@post.queensu.ca (Mike Smith) writes:
> If I give the command
>
> set printer lpt1:
>
> to MSK 3.14 it dumps a bunch of gibberish to my screen. I get this effect
> even if I start kermit with no initialization file
>
> kermit -f nul
>
> or with an initialization file that installs the patches for 21 May 1994
> (patch level 9) and does nothing else.
>
> The gibberish appears to be an attempt to print an error message that isn't
> there so MSK dumps whatever is there up to the first null. If I omit the
> colon MSK responds as expected.
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Uh oh. Yes, a message that lives in a different data segment than
expected, hence gibberish. Sorry about that.
Thanks,
Joe D.