info-vax@sri-kl (10/24/85)
From: Peter Manera <PMANERA%NYBVX1.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA> We had a similar problem with an LN01S and SAS/GRAPH. I tried everything I could think of and finally tried allocating the printer to myself and COPYing the .GSF file (produced by SAS as an output stream file of graphic directives) to the printer and, lo and behold, perfect graphs. My best guess, then, is that the print symbiont is doing something nasty. Having something that works, and a large student population looking for laser graphs, my workaround for the time being is a batch job which stops the que, makes the printer non-spooled, allocates the printer, copies any graphic files waiting to print to it, then reverses the operation for normal operation. I run it once an hour and, to date, it runs pretty well. (A preliminary step is that the file be copied by the user to a special directory - I called it LASERGRAPH - and the batch DCL looks there for files to print.) If you don't want to reinvent this little wheel, I'll be glad to send you the DCL. Peter NYU Graduate School of Business