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From: jeff@tc.fluke.com (Jeff Stearns)
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Subject: Re: lpr loses last part of output
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Date: 9 May 89 04:38:57 GMT
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jns@meridian.com (Jerry N Sweet) writes:
>We have a Printronix P6040L printer hooked up to the ALM-2 parallel port
>on a Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.0.1.  About half the times that lpr is used
>with plain text, the very last part of the output is mysteriously
>truncated.  ...

Have you installed the "General TTY Patches" tape from Sun?  It's alleged
to cure this problem (which occurs with other serial ports under SunOS
4.0.1 as well).

You'll see this same problem if you just "cat file>/dev/ttya", for example.
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