Xref: utzoo comp.unix.ultrix:1788 comp.sys.dec:1868 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!narnia.ecs.rpi.edu!todd From: todd@narnia.ecs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec Subject: Reverse LAT Printer woes with Ultrix 3.0 (RISC) Keywords: LAT, Ultrix, RISC Message-ID: <1989Sep26.141056.7882@rpi.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 14:10:56 GMT Reply-To: todd@narnia.ecs.rpi.edu () Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix Organization: ECS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180 Lines: 20 I have been struggling to get an Imagen laser printer to properly talk with a DECstation 3100 through a DEC terminal server. The printer software came with the printer and worked fine with a VAX 780 running 4.3BSD and a serial line. The symptoms: A single short file prints fine. A long file starts out OK, then gets garbled. If several short files are in the queue, the first one will print fine; the latter ones are garbled (assuming anything comes out at all). (Note: The Imagen using the IMpress printer language, rather than raw ascii...) Several of us think that perhaps some sort of flow control problem is at work. I have set the terminal server port to use flow control, disable flow control, etc., only to get the same results. (Only XON/XOFF flow control makes sense in our configuration). I have also tried various settings of the flags in the printcap entry. Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong? -- R. Lindsay Todd, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Internet: todd@narnia.ecs.rpi.edu