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From: "Doug Pickering" <djpickering@dera.gov.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Local Printing in Kermit 95
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:18:56 -0000
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Hi,
I have a slight problem with an application using the local printing
facility.
A VMS job allows a user to print a VMS file directly to a laserjet printer
attached to a users' PC via local printing. The job starts by switching to
local printing then sending some initialisation characters to the printer to
switch it to landscape and change the font.
The job then starts to print lines of the output to the printer which all
goes well until after every 100 lines of output the print job is interrupted
to display how many lines have been processed.
The effect of the status display is to end the print job and send it
straight to the printer. The next portion of the job is then queued as a
separate job, without the page formatting and often in the middle of the
page.
I have looked at the possibility of removing the status display and also the
possibility of it breaking on page boundaries and re-initialising the
printer. Both these solutions have undesirable drawbacks.
The reason the status display is on the screen is because a piece of
software checks for screen activity and if none is found within a preset
time the user is disconnected. This was happening regularly and so the
status line was put in. Up until now all the users have been using DOS but
the move to NT is causing problems.
I am informed that KEATerm does not exhibit the same behaviour.
Anyone have any ideas?
Doug Pickering
djpickering@dera.gov.uk