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From: joe@junkyard.UUCP (Joseph Sarkes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Help needed with printer under ix/386
Summary: Printer
Keywords: printer,lp,ix/386
Message-ID: <473@junkyard.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 89 15:55:13 GMT
References: <1696@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
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In article <1696@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>, fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
> another questions from me. I have a HP LaserJet series II
> connected to the parallel port of my 386 running ix/386.

> If I send a file to lp containing about 40 kBytes of processed
> TeX code it lasts about half an hour or longer until the 4 pages
> are out of the printer. If I do the same under MS-DOS it's
> about 55 seconds.


Check to see if the parallel port interrupt is shared /properly
specified so that unix can use it.(DON'T share it with another 
device!) I have seen here on the net a discussion about shared
interrupts giving rise to operation in a timeout mode vice interrupt.