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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Printer connections on Sun's
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Date: 18 Jan 89 05:05:51 GMT
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>What I want to happen, is to be able to send any and all characters to the
>printer without losing the tail end.

Run something from "/etc/rc.local" that opens the serial port for the
printer and holds it open.  There's a problem with closes on streams
devices that causes XON/XOFF flow control to go away while output is still
queued.  One of the 4.0.1 patches may purport to fix this.