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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Print symbiont interpretation of PASTHRU
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 07:17:58 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1993Jan25.031308.10158@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan25.031308.10158@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, houseman@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Carl Houseman) writes:
- >[This is a re-post of an article that somehow got put in as a followup to an
- >unrelated topic. I'm still learning trn :-(. The lack of replies, flaming
- >or otherwise, convinced me that no one had seen it! If you had, sorry.]
-
- Note to the person who e-mailed me saying "Just ignore ill-stated questions."
- See: I told you: When someone posts an ill-stated question and gets no
- response, he'll just assume that nobody heard him the first time!
-
-
- >It seems it is necesssary to specify /TAB in addition to /PASTHRU in order
- >to get the symbiont to pass the tab characters unscathed.
-
- It depends on the symbiont. When the symbiont is told to print the line, it'll
- get an indication as to whether or not the line is to be formatted. Some
- symbionts will honor this indication; others won't.
-
- >When questioned further the CSC said this was because of the symbiont's ability
- >to create left margins and the need to make sure tabs were aligned.
-
- This sounds like a bug in LATSYM. I've written a modified print symbiont that
- *WILL* honor the indication (i.e., if it's told it's not supposed to format the
- stuff it's supposed to print, it *WON'T* format it. It won't even look at it,
- and will send it to the printer using the IO$_WRITELBLK function).
- Furthermore, this modified symbiont will release the printer after EVERY job,
- instead of holding on to it until the queue is empty. If you'd like a copy,
- e-mail it for me.
- >I say /PASTHRU should be the same no matter what. If I don't want /PASTHRU I
- >wouldn't use it. Searching for references in the Gray Wall produced nothing
- >useful, except to say that TT2$M_PASTHRU caused QIO's to be treated as if
- >IO$M_NOFORMAT was specified. That was enough for me.
- >
- >Does anyone else agree that this is, at least, inconsistent behavior? Worthy
- >of being called a bug? Worth of an SPR? Already SPR'd?
- >
- >
- >Carl Houseman
- >houseman@hopper.acs.virginia.edu (this address is so new, it may not work)
- >GENICOM Engineering, Waynesboro, VA
- >703-949-1323
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-