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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!zeus!peter
- From: peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 and Postscript (another) FIX
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.025050.23489@zeus.dialix.oz.au>
- Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd., Perth, Australia.
- References: <f8cmmkp@dixie.com> <1992Jul21.193456.21792@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:50:50 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- >In article <f8cmmkp@dixie.com>, stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown) writes:
-
- >|> When I installed the PostScript+ upgrade my printing stopped working
- >|> instantly. The problem was that postio expects to be able to send
- >|> a ^T and get: %%[ status: whatever ]%% and Level II now returns:
- >|> %%[ Source: serial; status: whatever ]%% so postio keeps sending
- >|> ^T's hoping to get something it recognizes. :-(
-
- > Did you try the option to not send ^T? I know that sounds so obvious
- >that anyone would have tried it, but if Dell says they don't have a
- >solution maybe it doesn't work. I think it's -a, but that's from memory,
- >and I suggest you read the manual description one last time before using
- >it.
-
- I dont want to seem picky, but it's -q (there is no -a), which works for me..
-
- However, Ultimately I ended up changing the scanf strings in the binary from
- "%%%%[ status: busy; block: %d ]%%%%<LF><NUL>"
- to
- "status: busy; block: %d ]%%%%<LF><NUL>"
- and
- "%%[ status: endofjob ]%%<LF><NUL>"
- to
- "status: endofjob ]%%<LF><NUL>"
-
- Of course you are going to need a binary file editor or something..
-
- It works for me.. You're mileage may vary..
-
- The "correct" thing to do would be for somebody to fix the postio source
- so it parses the %%[ keyword1: value1; keyword2: value2 .... ]%% lines
- correctly - IE: any keywords in any order - ignoring inrecognized ones.
-
- It should be able to handle a line looking like:
- %%[ block: 10; status: busy; Source: serial; pagecount: 7436 ]%%
-
- How's about it Dell?
- It should be simple enough.. :-)
-
- PS: Is Larry on holiday or something? His absence from the debate has been
- a bit of a suprise.... :-)
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