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- From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
- Subject: Pathworks for Mac printing problem.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.172350.563@hhcs.gov.au>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:23:49 +1100
- Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services
- Lines: 124
-
- Hi,
- We're playing with providing printing support to our 4 platforms
- (Mainframe, Vax/VMS, PC and Mac) via Pathworks for Macintosh 1.1
- setup print queues. Now this seems to work reasonably well when
- talking to Appletalk printers however the MSAP$SYMBIONT refuses
- to talk to a LAT connected printer when the LTA device is spooled.
-
- It's a Gestetner GLP-800 Scout Postscript printer hooked off a
- terminal server. The LTA port itself works fine and we have no
- problems with copying files to the port and such (except it's
- *slow*), the problem comes when we define the MSA printer
- service. Pathworks creates the VMS queue with the MSAP$SYMBIONT
- print symbiont ok and then we start the service. Either printing
- from VMS using the default LTR_12 form or printing from a Mac (ie
- just putting something into the queue) results in an error
- message; |
- V
-
- %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 23-DEC-1992 17:02:09.31 %%%%%%%%%%%
- Message from user SYSTEM on CNB11W
- %MSAP-E-CONNFAIL, connect failed to printer LTA2:
- -ATK-E-NBP_NAMNOTFOU, Name was not found
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- The queue looks like this;
-
- $ sh queu ss_test/all/full
- Printer queue SS_TEST, stalled, device unavailable, on CNB11W::"LTA2:",
- mounted form LTR_12 (stock=PLAIN_PAPER)
- /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=LTR_12 (stock=PLAIN_PAPER))
- /LIBRARY=MSAP$DEVCTL /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=MSAP$SYMBIONT
- /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,W:W)
-
- Entry Jobname Username Blocks Status
- ----- ------- -------- ------ ------
- 8 LOGIN MAKINC 3 Stalled
- Submitted 23-DEC-1992 17:01 /FORM=LTR_12 (stock=PLAIN_PAPER)
- /PRIORITY=100
- File: _$1$DKA300:[SS.MAKINC]LOGIN.COM;26 (printing)
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- The Pathworks for Macintosh printer service looks like this;
-
- MSA$MANAGER> sh pr "SS Test" /full
-
- Print service "SS Test" for queue SS_TEST
- Process MSAP$RCVR1
- /DESTINATION="LTA2:"
- /SETUP=(MSAP$APPLEDICT71) /FONTS=MSAP$FONTLIST_APPLE35.TXT
- /DEFAULT=(FORM=LTR_12)
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- The device looks like this;
-
- LATCP;
-
- Local Port Name: _LTA2: Local Port Type: Application (Queued)
- Local Port State: Inactive
- Connected Link:
-
- Target Port Name: PORT_16 Actual Port Name:
- Target Node Name: AAB1N1 Actual Node Name:
- Target Service Name: Actual Service Name:
-
- show dev;
- $ sh dev lta2:/full
-
- Terminal LTA2:, device type unknown, is online, record-oriented device, carriage
- control, device is spooled through an intermediate device.
-
- Error count 0 Operations completed 4
- Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
- Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWLP,O:,G:,W:
- Reference count 0 Default buffer size 511
-
-
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- The terminal setup looks like this;
-
- Terminal: _LTA2: Device_Type: Unknown Owner: No Owner
-
- Input: 9600 LFfill: 0 Width: 511 Parity: None
- Output: 9600 CRfill: 0 Page: 66
-
- Terminal Characteristics:
- Interactive Echo Type_ahead No Escape
- No Hostsync TTsync Lowercase No Tab
- Wrap Scope No Remote No Eightbit
- No Broadcast No Readsync No Form Fulldup
- No Modem No Local_echo No Autobaud Hangup
- No Brdcstmbx No DMA No Altypeahd Set_speed
- No Commsync Line Editing Overstrike editing No Fallback
- No Dialup No Secure server No Disconnect No Pasthru
- No Syspassword No SIXEL Graphics No Soft Characters No Printer Port
- Numeric Keypad No ANSI_CRT No Regis No Block_mode
- No Advanced_video No Edit_mode No DEC_CRT No DEC_CRT2
- No DEC_CRT3 No DEC_CRT4 VMS Style Input
-
- Device spooled to _CNB11W$DKA0:
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
- As you can see it looks like an AppleTalk error but it's not,
- really. I placed a call with Digital (before I found out it was
- the spooled/nospooled option) and they didn't have an answer
- either.
-
- Setting the device nospooled (set dev lta2: /nospooled) fixes it
- directly however we want to spool the device to that direct
- copies from other nodes go via the printer queue. We need that
- to allow our Interlink Hot-Writer setup to work properly from the
- mainframe.
-
- Has anyone seen this problem before? Did you solve it?
-
- Carl.
- --
- Carl Makin, MVS/ESA Systems Programmer, VAX/VMS Dabbler.
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