Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!NADC.ARPA!youssef
From: youssef@NADC.ARPA (P. Youssef)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re:  DEC VT240 repairs
Message-ID: <8806201056.AA03952@NADC.ARPA>
Date: 20 Jun 88 10:56:17 GMT
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I had the same problem  Look at your setup If the baudrate is not set on the 
printer as the system baud it some t[D[Dtimes come up with that error als[D[D[D[D. Also xon/xoff
this worked in my case  [D[D. 

                                  Good luck
                                    Peter