Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Voluminous ASCII output from LaserWriter Message-ID: <1499@uw-beaver> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 21:38:50 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1499 Posted: Sat Aug 17 21:38:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 06:07:49 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 23 From: Neal HoltzWith a simple ascii terminal hooked to 9600 baud serial line of the Apple LaserWriter, I executed the following (it prints 100 lines of 62 characters on the terminal): /lots { {(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\n) print flush} repeat } def 100 lots There were quite a number of characters missing from the output --- perhaps as high as 1 in 50. They were missing from random places --- usually no more than one per line. Other tests have shown that the terminal has no problem receiving hundreds of lines of this stuff without resorting to X-OFF/X-ON. Therefore the fault must lie with the LaserWriter. I realize that this is not the primary intended purpose of the LaserWriter, but still --- it probably shouldn't do that.