chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) (05/18/91)
I've just begun setting up lp and company under SCO System V 3.2 (ODT 1.0.1) and have been having enormous problems. `lpadmin' complains about invalid scaled numbers; eg, if I use 11i as form length, it tells me to use only i or c as the suffix! It also says it should put an i or c at the end of a number like cpi, e.g., cpi=10i, which seems like the inverse of what I want, but if they want it that way, hey, I'll do it. Doesn't matter. Still complains that I should have an i or c at the end. (Maybe I should take it literally and put TWO i's at the end? ;-) ) `lpforms' is worse. It has the same problem with parsing 'scaled numbers', so any form description I create will be rejected if it specifies any value for form length, width, cpi, or lpi. The only way I can get it to create a form at all is to omit everything in the description except the comment. That avoids choking the parser, and lpforms fills in default values for everything else, creates the appropriate directory and files in /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/forms, and then says it got an unexpected return code 5 from the lp process. After that, subsequent attempts to modify the same form result in a complaint that the form is corrupted. "lpstat -f all" doesn't know about the form at all. So far, I am completely unable to use forms at all. Are these utilities this broken for everybody? Is this a SCOism? Do I have a trashed distribution? Does anyone know of workarounds? Thanks! -- Chap Flack Their tanks will rust. Our songs will last. chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us -MIKHS 0EODWPAKHS Nothing I say represents Appropriate Roles for Technology unless I say it does.
jeffl@comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann) (05/19/91)
In article <9105172311.aa01982@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes: >I've just begun setting up lp and company under SCO System V 3.2 (ODT 1.0.1) >and have been having enormous problems. `lpadmin' complains about invalid [horrors with forms setup deleted] >-- >Chap Flack Their tanks will rust. Our songs will last. >chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us -MIKHS 0EODWPAKHS You need update unx249b from the sosco uucp bbs. The following is an exert from the accomanying unx249b.ltr --------- UTILITY MODIFICATIONS + A new version of /usr/lib/lpsched(ADM), engineered especially to handle the use of filters and forms as specified in the documentation. This corrects problems with /usr/lib/lpsched(ADM) dying with the following message when using the filters option: "UX: lp: ERROR: can't receive message from the LP print service. TO FIX: The LP print service apparently has been stopped. Get help from your system administrator." + A more robust /usr/lib/lpforms(ADM) binary that corrects problems experienced when attempting to configure a form. + A more robust /usr/lib/lpadmin(ADM) binary that corrects problems experienced when administering the forms feature of the print service. FILE MODIFICATIONS + All of the model printer interface scripts have been revised and upgraded to include support for the filters feature of the print service. The hpjet [lots of stuff deleted] Not connected with, employable by, or associated with SCO in any way. -- # Jeff Liebermann Box 272 1540 Jackson Ave Ben Lomond CA 95005 # 408.336.2558 voice WB6SSY @ KI6EH.#NOCAL.CA.USA packet radio # 408.429.0483 digital pager 73557,2074 cis # jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us uunet!comix!jeffl jeffl%comix@ucscc.ucsc.edu