Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!utcsrgv!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver.UUCP (Robert Morris ) Newsgroups: tor.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Imagen Spooler Help Message-ID: <1356@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Oct-83 09:38:59 EST Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1356 Posted: Sun Oct 30 09:38:59 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Oct-83 10:10:00 EST Lines: 48 From uucp Sun Oct 30 00:43:30 1983 >From uw-beaver!root Sun Oct 30 00:40:57 1983 remote from utcsrgv Received: from rand-relay.ARPA by WASHINGTON.ARPA with TCP; Sat 29 Oct 83 12:59:22-PDT Date: 29 Oct 83 8:15:10-EDT (Sat) From: Robert Morris Return-Path: Subject: Re: Imagen Spooler Help To: Lou Salkind Cc: laser-lovers@Washington Via: UMass-Boston; 29 Oct 83 12:31-PDT 1. A lot of imagen unix support is I believe available on a tape from Imagen, although I believe they also have had problems making it work with the 4.2 spooler 2. lpd is oexessively, aggressively, helpful, and puuts a lot of garbage on the output device beyond what is added by the final filter as specified in /etc/printcap. You must suppress headers, formfeeds, and anything else that the printcap documentation says you can. 3. I found that specifying a plain file as the print device, then looking at it, got me well along to seeing what interefernce lpd was causing. 4. I used not the alleged imagen support but that for tekplot instead, since I could never make the imagen options even write on the file. 5. I have Sun's and no sources. 6. I got interrupted before making all of this work and have not yet ascertained whether my problems are in my printcap manipulations or my imagen printing filter, which is derived from, but not equal to, that provided by imagen. 7. make sure you can print ok without the spooling arrangements. If you are using imagen's (very robust) packet protocols, and perhaps no matter what you are using, a when run on serial lines our most common "problem" is having login's running on the line by mistake. These compete with the packet scheme, gobbling acknowledgements, and making the host believe the imagen isn't there. 8. please keep me informed if you get further than I did. thanks -bob morris