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- From: jbotz@sophia.smith.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: PS printer doesn't know when job is done...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.220146.1653@sophia.smith.edu>
- Organization: Smith College
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:01:46 GMT
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- I spent this afternoon setting up an HPIIIsi with Postscript connected
- to a Sun3 via it's serial port. I got it to work right away, except for
- one odd little thing... the HPIII doesn't know when a job is done, and
- pops up with a timeout error 10 seconds after it (correctly) finishes
- printing. So I called up HP tech-support, and the person I spoke to
- thought that for some reason the computer was sending an extra character
- after the end of file. He gave me a little piece of HPCL code that
- makes control characters visible. I switched the printer to HPCL mode,
- downloaded the code, sent a file... and found that not only was there
- no _extra_ character after the end-of-file, there was no end-of-file
- character either. Could this be the problem? Should "lpd" be sending
- an end-of-file character down the tty port? Do I need to change some
- tty flag? I spent all afternoon digging through man pages looking for
- a clue, but came up with zip.
-
- - Jurgen Botz
- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
-
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