Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:6916 alt.sys.sun:2243 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!sq!lsuc!attcan!uunet!bellcore!att!emory!samsung!crackers!m2c!hsdndev!husc6!rice!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!orc!inews!iwarp.intel.com!gargoyle!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,alt.sys.sun Subject: Re: Genuine Adobe on HP-II Message-ID: Date: 5 Nov 90 21:00:44 GMT References: <1990Oct30.200442.5246@wsrcc.uucp> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 83 wolfgang@wsrcc.uucp (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht) writes: >I just got me Genuine Adobe Postscript cartridge for my HP-II. Wow, >what a lot of nice looking packaging and brochures. I'm impressed. >Now for the observations. Adobe gives you an HP cartridge. Its easy >to figure out what to do with that. They also give you a pile of >messy-dos disks. Huh? How do I feed this to my SPARC? ;-) The floppy disks are mostly for the MS-DOS Printer Control Program which is a TSR that sends control codes to the cartridge to autoswitch between PS and PCL modes. This isn't that useful if you intend to stick to PS all the time (esp with the TRANSCRIPT software, there's really no need to autoswitch). >As far a I can tell there is a lot of hemming and hawing in the >documentation about running it with Lotus this and Microsoft that. >Problem is, there *isn't* a scratch of information about the basics. >Eg. What do I send down the line to get the printer to toggle between >Postscript and HP modes. Adobe says there is an IBM PC program on one >of the disks to do just that. Surely Adobe isn't planning on making >us all buy a PC emulator just to run their cartridge. Anyone know >where I can get a little *real* documentation? do you really need to switch between PCL and PS modes? I'd be the first to tell you that you're probably better off just turning off the printer and taking out the cartridge and turning the printer on again (well, almost as long, the switch involves telling the cartridge to turn itself off and do a PCL self test, then do whatever PCL stuff, then go through a PS self test when the next job comes through. It's about a minute or two for each of the self tests). >Now for the technical problems: >When I tip to the printer from the SPARC (SLC/SunOS 4.0.3 in case it >matters) I can issue the command "executive\n". I get the start of >the startup banner, and then blam! Control-G battles flair. Nice to >see that two toys get along so well together. ;-) I assume this is the >result of some sort of ^S-^Q war that escalates and overflows a stack. > PS>quit^M > PostScript(r) Version 52.3^M > Copyright (c) 19^C^M > PS>^M > PS>^M > PS>foo^M > %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: foo ^G^G^^M > %%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: ^G^G^G^G^M > %%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: ^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^M > %%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand:^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G > ^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G > ^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G > ^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G > ^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G^G ]%%^M > PS>^C^M > PS>^M > PS>quit^M > (the line of ^G's was broken up by hand - it was all on one line) >Anyone have any experience with this? I did notice that he only way >to get this guy unwedged is with a ^C sent down the line. >Any error would print the first error "Error: undefined; ..." and then >continue with an infinite chorus of "Error: limitcheck; ...". Hmm. >I'm stumpted. The Sun isn't normally echoing anything down the line. >Tip is being run with no parity. It isn't a case of a totally broken >cartridge. The postscript works quite will when hooked up directly to >a wyse-75. (Wyse-75's are very fast terminals though.) Perhaps the >Sun is sending too many ^S's to the printer? I wonder if the >printer's uart is getting a data overrun from all the ^S flung it's >way? Could this data overrun is interpreted as a bad command? >Questions/answers, anyone? hmmm, are you using the transcript software? Adobe created this package to convert text and graphics into PS. Sun currently sells it for Adobe on all their machines. Of course, they have a newer software package (Newscript?) that's suppose to be better but I don't know. If you're not using the transcript package, there's not much hope. Bob Bob Kusumoto | Find the electric messiah! Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | The AC/DC God! Bitnet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.bitnet | - My Life with the Thrill Kill UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | Kult, "Kooler than Jesus" Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com