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From: dold@91.usenet.us.com
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Subject: Re: Local Printing in Kermit 95
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Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: So what should Kermit do when it receives the "stop printing" sequence? If
: this were a real terminal, there would not be any question -- it would
...
: But in Windows matters are a bit murkier, because we are going through
: who-knows-how-many layers of printer drivers, spoolers, buffers, etc, and
: possibly also accessing the printer through a network. So if Kermit simply
: stopped printing, then what would make the page come out of the printer? So
: Kermit must "close" the print job when it gets a "stop printing" command.
Another example of Kermit being written too correctly ;-)
This is analogous to printer timeouts in a Netware environment. Properly
written programs "close" the printer when they are done. Poorly written
programs do not, so Netware has a spooling timeout available. No data for
a certain length of time causes the spooled printer to close.
too short a timeout causes the same problem our poster is complaining
about, albeit from a different source.
Perhaps Kermit could be coded with an option not to "close" the printer.
Gack!
Let's see, what do I find at the Command Prompt under "Set Printer"?
Hey! End-of-Job-String... Whatzat?
Not in the book, maybe in d:\Kermit-95\Docs\updates.txt
Well that isn't the fix, but section 7.5 mentions exactly what we need,
a TIMEOUT option. I didn't backtrack to see what version brought in this
feature. You should look in updates.txt, and if it isn't there, download
the update(s).
Accomodating devils, those K-95 authors.
Workarounds for all the goofiness that we are forced to live with in the
real world of "legacy" systems.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@network.rahul.net
- Pope Valley & Napa CA.