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 Lines: 18 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. -- Time is nature's way of Jean-Pierre Radley making sure that everything ..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jpr doesn't happen all at once. CIS: 76120,1341