woerz@seismo.CSS.GOV@iaoobel.UUCP (Dieter Woerz) (12/03/86)
Hello,
We got a VAXstation II running Ultrix 1.1. I want to use the serial
console line as a printer port for an Oki Microline 183. Reading
manual part 4 (qvss), there is an explanation how to do this (You have
to make a device with a major device id of 38 and minor device id of
0). When I plug in the printer and try to print something (correct
setup of the printcap file), spaces and some other characters are
converted to '@' and '('. I tried to put a terminal parallel to the
printer and I got the output, I wanted to have. With a tester for
RS232 (voltage leds only) I found out, that the send line of the
console was not on mark. When I hat the terminal in parallel to the
printer, the terminal drove the line to mark.
Now my question: Is it normal, that the serial console doesn't drive
it's send and receive line to mark ?
Could you please mail your answers to me.
Thanks in advance
Dieter Woerz
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation
Holzgartenstrasse 17
D-7000 Stuttgart 1
W-Germany
UUCP: seismo!unido!iaoobel!woerz