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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: K95 and printer port problem.
Date: 9 Mar 2005 20:22:22 GMT
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On 2005-03-09, Kevin Handy <kth@srv.net> wrote:
: I have a customer who is using Kermit-95 to access a Alpha/VMS.
: This is on a Windows-XP system, with a fairly current K95.
:
: The VMS programs use the printer port to output reports.
:
: Configuring Kermit-95 to send to a dot matrix printer attached
: to the computer works correctly. (Windows print que)
:
: However, trying to use a HP deskjet 3845 (Windows print que)
: causes that print que to hang, with nothing ever printed.
: Exiting kermit doesn't clear it. You can't delete the jobs.
: You can add more jobs to the que, anthough they never print
: because they are blocked by the kermit print. It lists on
: the que as "printing".
:
There are several possibilities:
1. Kermit 95, as a VT terminal emulator, does what a VT terminal
does; when commanded by the host to enter transparent print
mode, it redirects the input stream to the printer, including
escape sequences. Since the HP printer does not understand
VT terminal escape sequences and since PCL commands bear a
certain resemblence to VT escape sequences, it is possible
that the printer is hanging because a particular VT escape
sequence corresponds with a PCL escape sequence that does
(or does not) do something entirely different.
2. The HP printer is a "WinPrinter". These are not supported by
Kermit 95.
: The only way we have found to clear this, is to reboot the
: XP machine.
:
: Is there any way to make this printer work correctly with
: kermit-95? Hopefully there is a simple solution to this problem.
:
That's rarely the case in Windows. Start here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95faq.html#printing
Follow the leads at the top of this section into the Kermit 95 manual.
- Frank