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From: Claude.P.Cantin@NRC.CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: printer half working.  Need help!
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Date: 20 Nov 90 16:35:44 GMT
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This is a printer question.

I am trying to connect a DECwriter (yes those 15 year-old teletype things)
to a 4D/280S, on port /dev/ttyd56.  The printer type I am using is "dumb".
BANNER is set to 0.  STTYPARAMS has be set to "ixon ixoff", "sane",
"-ixany ixon ixoff", and many others, but the same thing happens:

Here is the problem:  when sending a file to the printer, only the first
8 or 9 lines are printed.  The rest is ignored (i.e. not printed).

THIS IS NOT RELATED TO THE DECWRITER since a HP Laserjet III, AND a
VT220 terminal show EXACTLY the same symptoms.


It looks as if the SGI sends only about 255 characters.  The cable used
is a null modem cable (pins 2 and 3 cross-wired).


Could someone point me in the right direction????  Has this happen to
anyone else???   What am I doing wrong????

Here is the commands I used to enable the printer:

   /usr/lib/lpshut
   /usr/lib/lpadmin -pdecwriter -mdumb -v/dev/ttyd56  (also tried ttyf56)
   /usr/lib/accept decwriter
   enable decwriter
   /usr/lib/lpsched

Any suggestions???


Thanks,


   Claude Cantin (cantin@vm.nrc.ca, CANTIN@NRCVM01.BITNET)
   National Research Council of Canada
   Ottawa, Ont.
   (613) 993 0240