wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (05/23/88)
Hi there, This one is a bit difficult to explain because I can't show you the print-out. That'll have to wait for the gigabyte/sec NSFnet, I suppose. I finally got around to hooking up my HP deskjet printer to the parallel port on impulse (my 3b1 at home). I had a lot of trouble with the printer administation. After using Install to set up the printer, the mouse buttons started acting irratically. The work- aorunt was to log in as root and run /usr/bin/lpsetup manually. No big deal really. For some reason, running lpsetup separately from ye olde user agent prevents the breakage of the mouse. I should mention that the W icon at the upper right quit working, but the <suspend> key still worked. The only way, to set things right was to reboot; I didn't feel like killing and restarting the daemons manually, and I didn't trust that anyway. Well, now for the real part of the story. I thought I'd try the bitmapped screen dump as described in the owner's manual by doing a <shift><print>. Worked fine rendering a user agent screen. I logged back in (I hate ua, and I don't have windy). I did the same thing from kermit terminal emulator running on a full screen Unix. What was strange was that the status garbage that was supposed to be on line 1 was there. The sysinfo display I had running in lines 26 & 27 was there. What should have been in lines 2-25 was offest by about 10 lines. That is, the 10 previous lines that had scrolled out of full screen Unix were in lines 2-11, while 12-25 had what should have been in lines 1-16. Hmmmm... Has anybody seen this one? Anybody know which of the daemons it is that does the screen dump?, wmgr I suppose. Thanks for lending me an ear. --Bill wtm@neoucom.UUCP