info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/22/85)
From: Eric R. Crane <EC0N@CMU-CC-TE.ARPA> With the installation of VMS V4 our print symbionts have all stoped working. Being short on staff and time I have not been able to work on fixing our old symbiont. Do any of you have symbionts for V4.1 that would work with QMS or similar printers. I am would be thankful for just about anything. - Thanks in advace Eric R. Crane Carnegie-Mellon University ec0n@cmu-cc-te.arpa -------
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/23/85)
From: Kevin Carosso <engvax!KVC@cit-vax> I know that Talaris Systems Inc. in San Diego have a symbiont for VMS V4 for the QMS laser printers. Talaris sells fonts and support for TeX and TROFF on the QMS lasers. They have a symbiont that keeps track of fonts in the machine as files you print need them. Also, if you don't need the font management, I know that they have gotten rid of the symbiont they had under VMS V3 that made sure the QMS was initialized, etc. between jobs and now do everything with the standard VMS symbiont and the device control library mechanism. Maybe you can get by with that? It'd certainly save you a lot of time and effort. If you need the font management, then you may be able to justify getting the stuff from Talaris for whatever they charge. We have their stuff for TeX and TROFF and are quite happy with it. A different note on the same subject. Does anyone out there have a modified or user-written symbiont for VMS V4 that handles security headers and trailers on every page of output???? We really need something to do this, and I don't want to waste the time doing it over if someone already has one. I know there was a DECUS session in New Orleans about user-modified symbionts and the speaker used security banners as an example, but I was unable to attend that session and the VAX notes had a simpler example. Anyone know who gave the session? Is the code available? Did it really handle security headers? We have (had under V3 anyway) a modified symbiont from DEC called SPRINT that did security banners. we have been unsuccessful in getting DEC to even agree on the existence of such a thing for V4. In fact, most of the people we've contacted at DEC are dubious that we ever even had such a thing for V3! It was one of those "some local office somewhere wrote it" specials..... Oh well. Anyone out there heard of SPRINT or, even better, SPRINT for V4? Thanks... /Kevin Carosso engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA Hughes Aircraft Co.