cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) (01/25/89)
There have been so many postings on various newsgroups asking for workaround for the QMS time-out problem. The one below is yet another exerpt from another news group. The type of problem is the same all alone. There is no answer yet! Are the QMS people reading this? Can someone in QMS just answer the question once and for all to stop all these repeating postings from showing up again? I am not in charge of the printer myself. I have no contact with QMS so I have been expecting an answer for the QMS problems to show up in this news group. Can someone who knows their phone number call them up and get an answer??? They may not be concerned enough to read this newsgroup!!! ====== included message ===== Path: daisy!wyse!vsi1!ames!ucsd!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: sysrick@cfht.cfht.hawaii.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: QMS-PS 810 on a serial port? Message-ID: <205@uwila.cfht.hawaii.edu> Date: 24 Jan 89 07:11:10 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: CFHT Corp., Hawaii Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 18 Jan 89 06:26:30 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 117, message 17 of 18 We have been using a QMS-PS 810 on a Sun 4/280 for a few months now. It is installed on a serial tty line running at 9600 baud with Xon/Xoff protocol. We have had 3 major problems with this configuration; 1. initially any print job would generate a timeout 30 seconds after ending, and then that timeout would generate an error "Unknown command ..." another 30 seconds later. The problem was that any job which arrived during this period was "flushed". This was patched by setting the job timeout to infinity and preceding/following all print jobs with ^D 2. if a job runs out of paper and it is not refilled within 60 seconds then the rest of the job is generally lost 3. we still get occassional "unrecognized command, flushing to end of job messages" I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has installed tne QMS-PS 810 on a Unix machine, particularly a Sun. -- .signature under construction ... pyramid!daisy!cplai C.P. Lai Daisy Systems Corp, 700B Middlefield Road, Mtn View CA 94039. (415)960-6961