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- Subject: Re: LPR characteristics
- Message-ID: <30868.cir_jmn@vax1.utulsa.edu>
- From: cir_jmn@vax1.utulsa.edu (Matt Nowotny)
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 08:34:20 CST
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- In Message Thu, 17 Dec 92 13:47:28 PST,
- adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman) writes:
-
- >> Hello, I don't remember seeing this recently. If it's been here
- >> then cat flames > /dev/null. I've been busy and may have missed it.
- >
- >> I have two LPR queue's defined as STREAM since I'm pumping them to
- >> printers on terminal servers just as the book says. The printers are a
- >> DP B300 and a DEC LA-120. The connection is made and characters come
- >> out. So far so good. However we seem to be missing any linefeeds so
- >> all the text comes out on one line. The B300 doesn't like this at all
- >> althought the LA-120 lives throught it.
- >
- >
- >> I've not seen anything is chapter 8 of the admin manual that tells
- >> me how to correct his. If I missed it the please point me to
- >> section/page. If I didn't miss it then does anyone know how to correct
- >> the situation. Printing several pages on one line does tend to make
- >> for very difficult reading.
- >
- >> Or is this something I need to fix by having my people play with
- >> the terminal server characteristics maybe?
- >
- > Play around with the terminal server. If you need to, use TCPDUMP
- >to confirm that we are really sending a CRLF (we always do) and that
- >the terminal server is eating it (we see a lot of this).
- >
- > Ken
-
- Or it may be easier to put a setup module on the form for the queue to tell
- the printer to turn on cr=cr+lf. This is what I ended up doing.
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