Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dasys1!jpr
From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO XENIX/386 and a slow lp
Keywords: XENIX 386, lp is real slow
Message-ID: <6610@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 19:59:53 GMT
References: <5470@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: TANGENT
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In article <5470@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> toma@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Tom Armistead) writes:
>I have just installed 386 Xenix (SCO) and am having some problems
>with the lp spooler. It runs **REAL** slow, printing about 1 line
>every 1 to 2 seconds, even when there is absolutely nothing else
>happening on the system...
>

You didn't mention what kind of computer nor what kind of printer.
There's been a lot of references to slow spooling on the TANGENT Forum of
Compuserve.
From memory, the problems alsmost always involved certain DWPrinters of
Tandy's, and the fix was a hardware mod that any RS Computer Center should
know about by now.
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