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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Switching from 132- to 80-column mode and printer
Date: 15 Jul 1999 15:09:05 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <378dd311.14957037@news.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Dr. Wolfgang Poll <Wolfgang.Poll@hhunospam.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
: using MS-DOS-Kermit 3.14 for some weeks now as a replacement for a
: dead VT320 terminal I recognize following problem I am unable to find
: a solution for in the documentation.
: Most of the output our old VAX software (running nearly 24 hours a
: day, 7 days a week, mostly without any user interaction) sends to the
: screen is 80 columns wide. By transparent printing to a printer
: attached to the parallel port of the PC we get a hardcopy protocol of
: the output. When on certain instances the software switches to 132
: column mode, screen and printer output continue as wanted. When
: switching back to 80 columns the screen output is still ok, whereas no
: further printing will occur.During the process of switching the
: printer indicator PRN at the right-hand side of the Kermit status line
: disappears, and printing must be re-enabled by hand at the time the
: user notices the lack of printout.
: Question: How can a continuous printing during switching from 132 to
: 80 column mode be achieved?
:
This should work. If it doesn't, and the host is indeed sending the
correct escape sequences (did all of this work correctly with the real
VT320?), then it's a bug.
If your PC operating system is DOS or Windows 3.x, please try version
3.16 Beta and see if the same thing still happens:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
If it is Windows 95, 98, or NT, you should be using Kermit 95:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
- Frank