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- From: francini@narfvx.enet.dec.com (John Francini)
- Subject: Re: non-ansi setup module?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.080245.26967@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA
- References: <1992Nov10.100643.43@dallas.sil.org>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:51:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.100643.43@dallas.sil.org>, whitley@dallas.sil.org writes...
- >We are attempting to download a font to an Epson printer connected to a
- >Decserver 700. The print symbiont (LATMaster) attempts to evaluate the
- >font file. If we do print/passall, all is fine. We can't use the usual
- >trick of wrapping <DCS> <ST> around the setup module to make the
- >symbiont ignore it because it contains a <DCS> <ST> within it.
- >
- >Rick Whitley - Whitley@a1.dallas.sil.org
- >
-
- Rick,
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- This is a problem that's endemic to both LATSYM and PRTSYM symbionts. [The
- actual problem is in SMBSRVSHR.EXE, the common code between both
- symbionts.]
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- SMBSRVSHR.EXE was taught years ago to scan for control sequences so that it
- might be able to anticipate needed paper movements and to track pages
- properly for chargeback accounting. This was great in the days of pure DEC
- shops, but in this multicultural world it's just plain inadequate.
-
- Basically, you're stuck with the /PASSALL route. We had to go that way
- with our PATHWORKS for VMS print serving features to guarantee that
- PC-originated printer jobs to all sorts of non-ANSI printers got done
- right. There's NO other way to tell the symbiont to stop processing
- control sequences inside a job.
-
- John Francini
- PATHWORKS for VMS project leader
- francini@narfvx.enet.dec.com
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