Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!woerz@seismo.CSS.GOV@iaoobel.UUCP From: woerz@seismo.CSS.GOV@iaoobel.UUCP (Dieter Woerz) Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Help request on using serial console on VAXstation II Message-ID: <8612021152.AA13210@iaoobelix.ARPA> Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 21:05:55 EST Article-I.D.: iaoobeli.8612021152.AA13210 Posted: Tue Dec 2 21:05:55 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 23:57:29 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 28 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa Hello, We got a VAXstation II running Ultrix 1.1. I want to use the serial console line as a printer port for an Oki Microline 183. Reading manual part 4 (qvss), there is an explanation how to do this (You have to make a device with a major device id of 38 and minor device id of 0). When I plug in the printer and try to print something (correct setup of the printcap file), spaces and some other characters are converted to '@' and '('. I tried to put a terminal parallel to the printer and I got the output, I wanted to have. With a tester for RS232 (voltage leds only) I found out, that the send line of the console was not on mark. When I hat the terminal in parallel to the printer, the terminal drove the line to mark. Now my question: Is it normal, that the serial console doesn't drive it's send and receive line to mark ? Could you please mail your answers to me. Thanks in advance Dieter Woerz Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Holzgartenstrasse 17 D-7000 Stuttgart 1 W-Germany UUCP: seismo!unido!iaoobel!woerz