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From: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Rice Don D)
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Subject: Re: LAT printer won't do big files
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.234015.18782@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 90 23:40:15 GMT
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In article <1990Oct7.004722.4918@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>, fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Rice Don D) writes...
> ... blah blah blah
>My initial values, fs#023:xs#040, came from the example ln03 printcap in
>the Ethernet Comm Servers manual (p 3-4).  However, the ln03 example in
>printcap(5) shows fs#03:xs#044000, which is also what lprsetup produces for
>the ln03.  Now according to tty(4), fs#023 is CRMOD|CBREAK|TANDEM, which
>looks okay to me.  The xs#040 turns out to be LTOSTOP, which seems dumb,
>but I can't figure out xs#044000.  The 04000 is LDECCTQ, but 040000 doesn't
>make sense because the local mode is supposedly a 16-bit word.  Anyway, I
>tried it and it doesn't fix the problem.
Then there are idiots who know that these printcap args are octal and the flag
definitions are hex, but don't do the base conversion before interpreting them.
The correct interpretations are fs#023 = 0x13 = ECHO|CBREAK|TANDEM, xs#040 =
0x20 = LLITOUT (now that makes more sense than LTOSTOP), xs#044000 = 0x4800 =
LDECCTQ|LPASS8.  But it still doesn't fix the problem.

Don Rice                                  Internet: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
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