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From: pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Bob Monio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Problems with Specialix 3.11 (Risc/OS 4.51 - M/120)
Message-ID: <8467@dmshq.mn.org>
Date: 4 Mar 91 04:12:15 GMT
Reply-To: pnessutt@dmshq.UUCP (Bob Monio)
Organization: Death Fleet Command
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One of our customers has installed the latest update of the Specialix
driver on his M/120 (Version 3.11 running under Risc/OS 4.51).  In doing
so we found that it cured the terminal hangs and in conjunction with wcat
(a patch given to us to help fix problems with lpsched) we were able to
clear up the truncated output to his printers.

But we found some behavior that has created a few problems.  It seems
that the default behavior of the ports is now -ixon, -ixoff, and
-ixany.  Since his printers use xon/xoff flow control only these
needed to be turned on in order to allow flow control to work
correctly.  Since some of his printed output is spooled and the rest
is not, we figured we would put a shell script in place to keep the
port open with ixon, ixany, and ixoff on.  Once running, the ports tty
characteristics change correctly.  Any output sent to the port via
cat, etc., works fine.  But once a spooled job gets sent to the
printer and printed, the characteristics of the port are reset to the
original default settings.  This occurs even with the shell script
still running.  Since this behavior is inconsistent with behavior
we've had in past with other machines, etc., this would seem to be a
bug.

For the time being we've managed to get the software vendor of
the package he is using to spool to that particular printer, which
has bypassed the problem.  But there are other customers that use
M/120s who will be installing this driver soon that are not going to
be as lucky.  Is there any information available on when a patch
and/or release update will be out with this problem fixed?

Thanks for your help.

 -Bob

-- 
 Robert A. Monio                       "Sometimes I wish that people would 
 International Quality Institute, Inc.  take this war more seriously.  Peace
 pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org                  is going to be a hell of a letdown."
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