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From: doug@wapsy.uwa.oz.au (Doug Robb)
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Subject: Re:  Is lwsrv broken?
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Date: 28 Nov 90 05:00:25 GMT
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>	From: newcastle.ac.uk!shotton!ndiw@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (Iain Wood)
>	Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
>	Subject: Is lwsrv broken?
>	Message-Id: <1990Nov27.161742.11475@newcastle.ac.uk>
	
>	We are trying to set up lwsrv so that we can print from Macs to a
>	laser-writter II attatched to a Sun 3. Occasionaly it works, more
>	often we get a cryptic mail message back from the printer deamon to
>	the effect that "your job could not be printed" and the printer log
>	file on the Sun says something like:  
	
>	Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored

Yes I've seen this before. The laserprep file must be massaged
by a program called "prepfix", I can send you a copy if you can't get
hold of it locally. Although lwsrv works well i still have a problem
when a text file is printed right after a graphics picture.
(eg print directory of mac and while the laser is processing that,
print a text file). The text file comes out backtofront and inside
out. On the other hand if I wait a minute or so after the 
directory has printed and then print the text file its ok. 
It seems to me the laser printer (both AstTurboLAser/PS and TI Omni)
need time to reset themselves or alternatively the procset (67)
is not right in some way. I don't know why I;m the only one
that seems to have this problem though!
doug@wapsy.psy.uwa.oz