jms@tymix.tymnet.com (Joe Smith) (07/22/89)
In article <30@brazos.Rice.edu> stiatl!meo@gatech.edu (Miles O'Neal) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 63, message 5 of 14 >In article <4155@kalliope.rice.edu> beareq!quants5!fitz@ai.mit.edu (David Fitzgerald) writes: | i am trying to connect a hp plotter 7475A to my sun 3/60 and run it | through a printer daemon on /dev/ttya i.e. lpr <plotter_file> | the plotter file is straight ascii text file and i have no problems | plotting about one page of commands. however the plotters error light | flashes through the entire process and aborts after a small portion of a | larger file. >You need to (a) make sure the plotter is set up to do flow control via ^S >and ^Q (one of the DIP switches) and (B) make sure that ttya is defined in >ttytype as something reasonable for what you are doing, including having >flow control set appropriately. That's not enough. You must be running either 3.5 or 4.0.3 of SunOS. I have a TI-800 printer running at 9600 baud on ttya, which needs XON/XOFF since it prints at about 200 cps. It worked just fine when I first got my system (running SunOS 3.5), but failed when 4.0 was installed. Explicitly setting the 1 in ":fs#06021:" in printcap helped, but not much. The 4.0.1 patch tape had no effect. The problem was finally fixed after upgrading to version 4.0.3 of SunOS. Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"
joes@islsun5.mse.lehigh.edu (Joe Sieczkowski) (08/03/89)
I was never able to get XON/XOFF to work proberly with my NEC LC 890
PostScript printer. I'm running Sun version 3.5. It seems like the sun
never sees the ^S from the printer. My final solution was to set the
printer at 1200 baud .... ie spoon feed it.
My printcap currently looks like:
ps|cat|troff|lw:\
:lp=/dev/ttyb:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:rw:\
:fs#06021:xs#40000:\
:tf=/usr/local/bin/pscat:\
:br#1200:mx=0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\
:pw#80:
If I even think about increasing the baud rate to 9600...the printer
looses output. If anyone out there knows a solution to this I would
appreciate it.
Joegwr@gomez.uucp (Gordon W. Ross) (08/23/89)
In article <721@brazos.Rice.edu> joes@islsun5.mse.lehigh.edu (Joe Sieczkowski) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 92, message 3 of 18 > >I was never able to get XON/XOFF to work proberly with my NEC LC 890 >PostScript printer. I'm running Sun version 3.5. It seems like the sun >never sees the ^S from the printer. My final solution was to set the >printer at 1200 baud .... ie spoon feed it. [...] >Joe Your problem is most likely the printer not sending XOFF. I see no problem with your printcap entry. I'm not sure if it will help, but I've included the printcap entry we use on our HP pen plotter which needs XON/XOFF to run at 9600 bps. # # HP pen plotter, connected locally # hp|hpplotter|hp7550A|Hewlett-Packard pen plotter in 1E404:\ :lp=/dev/tty02:sd=/usr/spool/hp:\ :lf=/usr/spool/hp/log:af=/usr/spool/hp/acct:\ :br#9600:fc#0377:fs#0221:mx#0:\ :rw:sh:sb:fo:\ :ff=\033.J\033.P1\:\033.T\:\nPG;\n:\ :of=/usr/local/lib/vp/hpfilter: # Note that the HP 7750A can be programmed to use XON/XOFF by sending the sequence "\033.P1:" or by front panel selections. Gordon W. Ross gwr@gomez.mitre.org (617) 271-3205 (daytime) The MITRE Corp. (M/S E025) Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 Gordon W. Ross gwr@gomez.mitre.org (617) 271-3205 (daytime) The MITRE Corp. (M/S E025) Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730