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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Focus Printing - K95
Date: 1 May 1996 10:53:16 -0400
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In article <4m5ufg$jcf@newsreader.wustl.edu>,
Sammi C. Naes <samn@wuvmd.wustl.edu> wrote:
: I am having a problem with Focus Printing using Kermit 95 (hp laserjet
: 4si printer). I select Landscape but my print comes out portrait, and I
: only get the first two lines of each page.
:
I take it Focus is the name of your host application. And it has a
"transparent print" feature that sends text to your PC's printer?
Well, first of all, Kermit acts just like a real VT terminal with respect
to printing -- it does not have printer / page setups, etc, for selection
of orientation, fonts, and so on, any more than a VT terminal does. It
simply redirects the transparent print bytes to the printer. It would be
the responsibility of the host application to format the output
appropriately for the printer.
Second, there is a well-known and age-old problem with the PC printing
text from host, namely that underlying operating system tends to forget to
tell the printer when the job is done, and therefore to send out the last
(or only) page. This might or might not be happening in your case.
Probably not, since you say the pages actually do come out, but only have
two lines on them.
The best course in a case like this is to collect a session log
demonstrating the problem, uuencode it, and send it by email to
kermit-support@columbia.edu together with a brief description of the