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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Having problem with locally attached printer to Radio Shack DT100
Message-ID: <785@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 08:21:52 GMT
References: <560@drexel.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
Lines: 39
Keywords: DT100 printer port

In article <560@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes:
<
<  At one of the companies I work at, they have several DT100 terminals, which
<I believe are probably Liberty OEM terminals, that are connected to locally
<attached printers through the terminals printer port.  Ocassionally, when the
<terminals are turned on, the login prompt (ther terminals are connected 
<to a 6000 system running Xenix) gets sent out the printer port (and prints
<on the printer).  Control returns immediately to the terminal keyboard, so
<that a user can enter their login and password (this doesn't appear on the
<printer, ie. local print is turned off).  Has anyone else ever experienced
<problems like this?  If so, what was the problem (and your solution).
<   One idea I just had (but since I'm not at the system can't test) is that 
<the clear screen sequence at the beginning of a session is causing the
<printer to go into local print mode.  However, that wouldn't explain how
<the terminal got back to normal mode and allowed a login.  I'm assuming,
<but not totally sure, that the problem is with the terminal and not with
<Xenix (something in the 'is' field in termcap might be the culprit).
<   Again, I would appreciate any help.
<
<						Jeff White
<						Drexel University - ECE Dept.
<						rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff

Well, I've got a DT-100 at home. From what I've been told it's a relabeled
Wyse-75. 

I can only suggest a couple of possibilities:
1. the clear screen is doing a "print line" or some such
2. the termcap is flaky. (I know for a *fact* that there are at least two
   errors in the 600 Xenix termcap entries for the dt-100.)

By the way, I've yet to find *any* kind of lockup that I can't clear 
with shift-setup. (now if that would only clear the mis-set tabs...)

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