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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (bill vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: lp driver for microport unix SYS V
Message-ID: <536@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 89 13:28:52 GMT
References: <12503@ut-emx.UUCP> <102496@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <427@cutsys.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (bill vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <427@cutsys.UUCP> cutter@cutsys.UUCP (Bernie Hoffstadt (753-1646)) writes:
>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 ..
>>It worked a lot better than the stock one, but ...
>
>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? 

Delays in printing are not just a Unix problem.  I have seen it on SCO's
Xenix, 2.3.1 and 2.2.3.  First on an AST 386, latter on an IBM 80.

The AST seems to recover after doing a page or so.  The IBM driving a laser
printer would go into "super slow mode" of 1 page every two minutes.

I suspect it is something in the orignal sources supplied to uPort, SCO, and
probably relates to the re-boot printer problem on Interactive's.  Anyone had
printer problems on a generic AT&T 386 release?


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