tyers@trlluna.trl.oz (P Tyers) (07/26/88)
Can somebody give me a pointer to where I'm going wrong please!
Having just installed Ultrix2.2 and LAT support we decided to move our
printers onto a decserver200. All went well except that the dvi to apple
laserwriter driver died. The driver is part of the TeX distribution
of some 2 years ago and the problem appears to be in routine getlog of the lpr
filter applef.c . Connected directly to a hardwired machine port it works
perfectly (with appropriate redefinition of lp in printcap).
It would appear that despite declaring the port to be "rw" in printcap the
system considers the decserver port to be write only, an errno [EBADF] is
returned and the read of the printer status fails, locking up the queue.
Is there some arcane decserver incantation I should be using? The decserver
is set up xon flow control, remote access, output speed = input speeed,
no autobaud, no autoconnect, no parity 8 bit data. I've done the necessary
lcp commands to link the port with the decserver and the port definition is
crwxrw-rw-, /etc/ttys and the decserver are setup as nomodem control.
Contact with DEC in Australia indicates "its a known problem which will
be fixed in the next release." Since the old release 2.2 only just reached me
this month (despite issue in the US in Nov.) this does not bode well! Has
anybody overcome the problem?
Thanx in advance
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