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From: dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Fix to printer.c
Summary: Not necessarily the problem...
Message-ID: <2718@sultra.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 23:17:05 GMT
References: <1785@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Tynan Computers, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1785@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> There have been lots of reports about printers not working, giving printer
> busy or out of paper and refusing to work.  A few weeks ago, somebody (I forget
> who, sorry) posted a message saying these were caused by using the wrong 
> printer port.  I have now changed printer.c to make a dynamic test to discover
> the printer port.  The fix below to printer.c should end this problem forever.
> If it doesn't, let me know.
> 
> Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

I can't vouch for the person who said that it was caused by the wrong port,
but that's not the problem I have.  Basically, the printer skips characters.
On the average, about five per page.  It doesn't do this under Messy-DOS.
Way back in the old days, when I was running version 1.2, I installed Barry
McMullens' revised version which fixed the problem.  However, since I went
to 1.3c, I haven't changed his driver to work with the new locking yet.  I
have heard of other people with this problem.  It seems the common-denominator
is a slow printer.  At any rate, it is not a function of the port number.

BTW; could a V7-guru please let me know if the following is an un-problem.  I
noticed that if I set the protection of an executable to 511, then no-one but
the owner can execute it.  This is not the case with System V.  Is this a bug
or a feature?  If it's a bug, I'll post the diffs to fix it as soon as I *do*
actually fix it.
						- Der
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