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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
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Subject: Re: Local Printing in Kermit 95
Date: 30 Jan 1998 14:39:40 GMT
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In article <6as2jp$5it$1@trog.dra.hmg.gb>,
Doug Pickering <djpickering@dera.gov.uk> wrote:
: 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.
:
This very situation is handled in Kermit 95 version 1.1.15.
The SET PRINTER command has a set of switches, one of them is the /TIMEOUT
switch. From the online help:
/TIMEOUT[:number]
Used with host-directed transparent or auto printing, this is 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.
Updates to Kermit 95 are available on the Web at
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95patch.html
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025 * (212) 854-1344
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html * kermit-support@columbia.edu