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- From: debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: can't write 8 bit chars to printer with Esix 4.0.4
- Summary: works with AT&T, not with Esix
- Keywords: Esix, 8-bit chars
- Message-ID: <4808@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 10:11:45 GMT
- Sender: news@svin09.info.win.tue.nl
- Reply-To: debra@info.win.tue.nl
- Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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- I have a 486 system with AT&T sVr4 2.1a, sas 1.25 and a polling printer driver.
- A friend just got Esix 4.0.4 for a similar system, and also installed sas 1.25
- and the same polling printer driver.
-
- The problem is that writing chars with the 8th bit set does not work with
- Esix 4.0.4 but does work with AT&T. The patch that was posted some time ago
- to fix the 8th bit problem with uucp and serial lines for Esix 4.0.3
- (replacing a jge by jmp in clist/Driver.o) does not fix the problem.
- Furthermore, the AT&T clist driver has the jge and does not have the
- problem.
-
- Is there a trick to write chars with the 8th bit set to the printer with Esix?
- (With AT&T sVr4 there is no trick, it works out of the box)
- Or is it (as i suspect) a bug in some kernel routine?
- Does anyone have a fix for this? It seems hard to believe that we are the
- only people who want to send 8-bit chars to a printer.
-
- Note that the problem is *not* in the printer driver which works fine with
- AT&T sVr4.0.2.1a. The printer driver doesn't get the chars with the 8th bit
- from whatever kernel routine is supposed to call the driver's write function.
-
- Any help much appreciated.
-
- Paul.
- (debra@win.tue.nl)
-