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From: Kevin Handy <kth@srv.net>
Organization: Software Solutions, Inc
Subject: Re: Kermit95 and Printing
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:08:21 -0600
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
> In article <3AE5F080.39E90208@srv.net>, Kevin Handy <kth@srv.net> wrote:
> : I'm helping a client set up kermit95 on PC's (to connect to an
> : Alpha/VMS system), and am having printing problems.
> :
> : The program sends escape sequences for the printer while in printer
> : passthrough mode, which works fine on real VT??? terminals, and k95
> : when going to a DOS device.
> :
> : However, they want to be able to use the printer port to send to a
> : windows que printer. When I try this, windows 98 does very bad
> : things. It takes the print job, and sends it to the printer a few
> : lines per page (aparently every time the printer port is turned on/off
> : it does a page break, instead of waiting for the printer timeout
> : value), and all the escape sequences are stripped out/rudely mangled.
> :
> : Is there some way around these problems?
> :
> See the file:///C|/K95/DOCS/manual/printer.htm (replace path by wherever
> K95 was installed if not C:\K95\). Read about the SET PRINTER switches,
> particularly:
>
> /TIMEOUT[:number]
> 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. Normally 0, meaning to
> terminate the print job right away. Specify a positive number
> after the colon; if you omit the colon and number, 0 is used.
> Example of usage: some host applications print a series of lines
> by opening and closing the printer for each line, which would
> create a print job for each line, which in the worst case, might
> wind up printing each line on a separate page; use this option to
> "merge" the lines into a single print job.
This helps with the page-per-line problem, but it still doesn't
allow for the escape sequences to work. Is there a way to use the
Windows printer network, but still be able to use escape sequences
(to set font size and such)