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- Subject: lpr/lpd question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.120338@mccall.com>
- From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:03:38 CST
- Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
- Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Nutshell: Does Multinet LPR client insert page breaks into a file being shipped
- from VMS to unix, and if so, how to stop it?
-
- I'm trying to track a problem, and Multinet is one of several possible culprits.
- Briefly (I hope) here's what I'm doing. I am routing a postscript plot file
- (yes, plot, not print) from the VMS system to an Intergraph that will interpret
- it and plot it on a Versatec plotter. I use the standard VMS print command to a
- queue set up as an LPR queue using Multinet and targetted towards the
- Intergraph. The Intergraph then moves the plotter over to yet another queueing
- system, their Network Queuing System (NQS), which drives the plotter. Under NQS,
- I've installed a shell script that has to do some preprocessing on the file
-
- The problem:
-
- In working on the shell script I've discovered that somewhere in this pipeline,
- something has inserted page breaks by changing some of the newlines (I counted
- 55 in the dump listing, but that's probably not a good count) to carriage
- return-formfeed sequences. Notice that's a return, not a newline (linefeed), so
- unix doesn't see the lines before and after the change as separate lines, it
- sees them as one line with a couple of control characters in the middle. This
- screws up my preprocessing when it happens to lines I'm interested in, since I'm
- running them through sed.
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- If Multinet or VMS is doing this, how do I stop it? It could be on the
- Intergraph side in the routine that moves the file to NQS, I'll be asking those
- folks also.
-
- Thanks.
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