sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris) (11/09/90)
I have just received three new Postscript printers (QMS PS810) that I want
to connect to a MicroVAX 3600 running Ultrix3.1 via LAT.
I have set up the printcap entry etc, and programs seem to work OK with them.
The first sign of trouble was when someone wanted to print the POUND sign.
According to the manual this is code 163. As a test I created a small file
with just this character in and tried printing it. It came out as a hash.
I downloaded this file to a PC and printed it via the parallel port where it
come out as a POUND.
I have tried using various stty options redirecting output to the tty used
for the reverse LAT, even doing an lcp connection and 'cat'ting the file
directly, bypassing the spooler, but to no avail.
The Serial port on the QMS is set to 9600, parity ignored. The DEC server
port is set to 8Bit, No parity.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance...
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<-- tharr *free* public access to Usenet in the UK 0234 261804 -->yfcw14@castle.ed.ac.uk (K P Donnelly) (11/14/90)
On the Sequent machine here, which runs Dynix (Sequent's version of
Unix), what you do to avoid getting the 8th bit stripped on terminal
output is either
stty -odd
or stty -even
I have no idea why, but it works.
Kevin Donnelly