Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Microport V/AT Printer Spooler non-Problem Keywords: Microport lp hangs non-bug Message-ID: <1559@ssc.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 23:42:03 GMT Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 20 Over the past year I have seen many people refer to the problem where the V/AT spooler stops talking to a printer even though there are files in the print queue. lpstat shows the printer as idle but queued files exist. I don't think anyone has ever thought it was anything other than a V/AT bug. Well, here is an interesting story. One of our consulting customers has been running V/AT on a clone for over a year. They had an Centronics printer with parallel interface. This problem never happened. They just called because of a death of their printer. I suggested they swipe a printer from their DOS machine to get things running. They have a Brother printer. When they plugged it in printing took off. About 1 hour later they called back. Things had stopped working. An lpstat showed the old "printer spooler bug" - idle printer but files in the queue. This is only one data point but it sounds to me like there is a difference between Centronics and Centronics compatible. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl