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- From: sproule@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (William J. Jr. Sproule)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: papif and LaserWriter IIg problems
- Keywords: papif pagecount IIg
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.211854.29141@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:18:54 GMT
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- Organization: Princeton University
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-
- We are having problems with papif and a LW IIg when getting
- the pagecount.
-
- 1. Papif opens connection
- 2. Papif sends with EOF:
- statusdict begin pagecount (*) print ==
- 3. LWIIg responds with correct pagecount
- 4. Papif sends job with postscript error (intentional)
- 5. LWIIg reads in postscript
- 6. Papif sends EOF:
- 7. LWIIg sends (expected result):
- %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: nerps ]%%
- 8. LWIIg sends (expected result):
- %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
- 9. LWIIg sends EOF
- 10. Papif sends with EOF:
- statusdict begin pagecount (*) print ==
-
- Now the fun begins. LWIIg never returns the requestet page
- count. Papif sends a SendData(TReq), LWIIg sends a SendData(TReq),
- Papif sends SendStatus(TReq), LWIIg sends Status(TResp) with:
- "status: waiting; source: EtherTalk", few Tickles here and there.
- This will repeat for 5 minutes, when the LWIIg will send:
- [ Error: timeout; OffendingCommand: timeout ]
- and the connection will close down.
-
- Note when papif sent the second pagecount request, it
- did send a EOF. A LWNT will do the correct thing. I understand
- we are feeding it bad postscript, but that is the easiest way
- to create the hang.
-
- I have the packet dump if anyone is interested. Is anyone
- running accounting with IIg's that does or does not have the
- same problem?
-
- Anyone have any ideas?
-
- Thanks,
-
- -b
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