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From: drich@dialogic.uucp (Dan Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Printer problems
Message-ID: <1037@dialogic.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 17:04:07 GMT
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Reply-To: drich@dialogic.uucp (Dan Rich)
Organization: Dialogic Corp., Parsippany, NJ
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  We are having problems with printers connected to our Unix machines
running Interactive's 386/ix v2.0.2.  Some of the time everything is
fine, but the rest of the time the printer is printing slowly.  It
almost looks as if the printer is connected to a very slow serial
line.  The printer will print a short burst of characters, then pause
before printing another burst of characters.  At times, the problem
will correct itself; at other times, it will print entire files this
way.

  I have been told that there is a bug in the parallel printer driver
that causes it to loose interrupts.  Is anyone familiar with this
problem?  If it is a bug, does anyone know of a fix for it?

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UNIX Systems Administrator  | UUCP: uunet!dialogic!drich
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