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- From: phaethon@sara.cc.utu.fi (Timo Eronen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: remote postscript printing problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.114641.1@sara.cc.utu.fi>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 11:20:46 GMT
- References: <2039@deadmin.ucsd.edu> <1992Aug18.235447.28054@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Aug19.040447.5801@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Aug19.215730.2379@alf.pec.co.nz>
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- Organization: University of Turku, Finland
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- In article <1992Aug19.215730.2379@alf.pec.co.nz>, paula@alf.pec.co.nz (Paul Andrew) writes:
- >
- >... Problems printing to appletalk network via sun deleted ...
- >
- > Unfortunately our LPD host is a VAX running PC/TCP and the LPD has
- > almost no options. You either run it or you don't. Our problem is
- > that the LPD insists on printing a banner to the postscript printer,
- > in text rather than postscript (the VAX doesn't seem to know about
- > postscript). The postscript printer tosses the job and no print out
- > appears.
-
- How can a VAX run PC/TCP ? Have FTP software made TCP/IP package for VAX
- also ? If you're talking about _PC_ running FTP software's LPD then according
- to their newest "Newsletter" the version 1.02 of LPD (will be released soon)
- will support queues w/o banner page. However, with current release (1.01) you
- can also configure it in such a way that the banner page does not harm the
- PostScript interpreter.
-
- If you run LPD on your VAX then you might want to try Multinet TCP/IP from
- TGV. Send mail sales@tgv.com or get more info from tgv.com by using
- anonymous ftp.
-
- >
- > What we do to fix this is print to a file on the OS/2 machine and
- > insert a CTRL-D in the front of the file. This finishes the faulty
- > banner job and allows my print job to go through.
- >
- > Ironically, the same problem that makes Microsoft Word fail on your
- > system - makes it work on mine. Because Word puts a CTRL-D in for
- > me, the file will get through our VAX's brain dead banner printing.
- >
- > If anyone has any ideas on how to remove the banner from a VAX LPD or
- > how to insert a CTRL-D in front of the postscript file, please mail me
- > or post.
- >
-
- Like I said earlier, use Multinet.
-
- >
- > Paul Andrew PaulA@hal.pec.co.nz Production Engineering (NZ) Ltd.
- > Ph. +64 652 8189 (hi mom!) P.O. Box 308, Marton, New Zealand
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > Paul Andrew PaulA@hal.pec.co.nz Production Engineering (NZ) Ltd.
- > Ph. +64 652 8189 (hi mom!) P.O. Box 308, Marton, New Zealand
-
- -Timo Eronen, tke@utu.fi
-