laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (11/07/84)
From: ss%wang-inst.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Hi folks, I have a complaint/warning and a question. I just bought SCRIBE for my VMS system which has an LN01 printer. I find 2 things. First: Unilogic (the scribe folks) tell me that I have to buy fonts from DEC. Now they tell me. I find no reference to that anywhere. I thought I might not because I also have SCRIBE on my UNIX machine driving an Imprint10, for which scribe DID supply fonts (for a price). Well, ok, I understand that. But they supply a initial setup which incorrectly talks to the default fonts that DEC does supply with the printer. In other words I have to dig into the guts of the SCRIBE database/driver just to get the printer working in what should be the default manner!! Second: The .LN0 file produced by SCRIBE is un-printable in the normal way, i.e. the PRINT command. The file is chock-full of escape sequences (which is how the LN01 know how to do things) - ok. But the VMS print spooler thinks its a good idea to throw in some carriage returns occasionally. Argh. Completely messes up the output. Ok, I de-spool the printer and try to just copy the file raw-like to the printer. Since VMS thinks the file is one long record, I promptly overflow some buffers. So I have a file on a "scribe-supported device" which I can't get out to the device. Unilogic says the problem is DEC's, DEC says "oh yeah, that is a problem". So I appear to be kinda-stuck. I would appreciate it greatly if anyone who has some insight or has gone through this before would give me some suggestions. Thanks a bunch, Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, linus, masscomp]!wivax!ss ss%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay.ARPA (617)649-9731