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From: cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: lp driver for microport unix SYS V
Message-ID: <427@cutsys.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 89 18:28:05 GMT
References: <12503@ut-emx.UUCP> <102496@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt (753-1646))
Organization: Garfield's Litterbox
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In article <102496@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
>While I was at Microport I rewrote the lp driver and shipped it to several people.
>It worked a lot better than the stock one, but it still had the "cooked" garbage
>in it (backwards compatable - I don't know ANYONE who uses it!)
	(You must use a >80 col. window in your editor :-)

	Does your driver fix the problem whereby if your printer
isn't turned on, but is connected when you boot Unix, /dev/lp refuses
to work?  It will even stop working if I take the printer off line
while it is printing.  Both cases require a reboot to regain functionality.
And how about all those parallel cards I've tried that cause a delay
between printing each line under Unix, but work fine under Dos?  2 out
of 3 cards seem to bring on that symptom.  I'm currently using 386v3.0e,
but had the problems with SysV/AT also.
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