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From: matt@marge.math.binghamton.edu (matt brin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Idlebug?
Summary: need help
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Date: 25 Aug 89 23:07:39 GMT
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We are running cap50 on a sun 3/60 that is running sunos 4.0.  Also running
is KIP 6/88 on the sun.  We have a Fastpath 2 box upgraded to a 4 with PROM
version 4.2 that was downloaded with K-Star 5.03.  

We put an Apple LaserWriter (not a Plus) on the appletalk side of the box
and turned it all on.  It handles short jobs just fine, but behaves oddly on
printouts of more than ten pages.  After about ten pages of a long printout
appear (say pages 17 through 7), there is a longish pause, and the printout
starts all over again with the "first" page (page 17 of this page reversed
example) and promisses to loop infinitely (long term behavior not checked
out).  

Is this the famous idle bug?  How do we deal with it?  (We compiled cap with
the option to slow down transmission, in case this is relevant.)

Replies can be emailed if you think that your answer is not of universal
interest.

matt brin / math. dept / SUNY / Binghamton, NY 13901
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