ferguson@BKNLVMS.BITNET (05/20/88)
Occasionally, one of our students prints ?*.pas even though he/she has a file with no text in it. The file is therefore 32 bytes of header, and nothing else. Whenever this happens, the print server dies of an access violation. Has anyone else had this problem? (I'm at 9.7) Is anyone fixing it? Thank you very nice, Scott Ferguson ferguson@bknlvms.bitnet
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (05/20/88)
Are you certain that you print server is an SR9.7 server and not an older version? My server for our Toshiba 1351 printer used to have the same problem with earlier versions which were based on pre SR9.6 /com/prsvr (what is happening is that /com/prsvr is trying to check if the first line of the line contains some special character string before checking if the file is even long enough to contain the string). Apollo fixed this problem sometime around SR9.6 If your print server is an SR9.6/9.7 server it will have a length of about 310-320 blocks. Earlier versions (SR9.2/9.2.3) are more like 165-175 blocks in length. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)