Subject: Problems printing-to-attached-printers

From: Frank Stetzer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 11:12:36 -0500

This is probably more a communications than a Pine problem ...

Our users have a lot of problems printing to their attached
printers.  Typical symptoms are blocks of text missing in
the printed message, or local system lock-up after a portion is
printed.  

(This is Pine 3.91 running on Dec Alphas, OSF/1.  Users
are accessing via modem, hard-wired serial and network
connections.  Problems seem most severe for the modem
users.  A variety of communications packages are used;
the problem occurs with Kermit for one.)

Sometimes the problem can be traced to software vs. hardware
handshaking between the user's micro and their modem, but not
always.

Does anyone have a grasp on this problem?  Maybe the communications
packages they are running?  The speed or setup of their printer?

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Frank Stetzer                                 [email-masked]
Statistical Software Coordinator              P.O. Box 413
Information and Media Technologies            Milwaukee, WI 53201
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee           (414)-229-4571

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 4 Jun 1995 05:02:09 GMT

Frank Stetzer ([email-masked]) wrote:
: This is probably more a communications than a Pine problem ...
: Our users have a lot of problems printing to their attached
: printers.  Typical symptoms are blocks of text missing in
: the printed message, or local system lock-up after a portion is
: printed.  
: (This is Pine 3.91 running on Dec Alphas, OSF/1.  Users
: are accessing via modem, hard-wired serial and network
: connections.  Problems seem most severe for the modem
: users.  A variety of communications packages are used;
: the problem occurs with Kermit for one.)
: Sometimes the problem can be traced to software vs. hardware
: handshaking between the user's micro and their modem, but not
: always.

: Does anyone have a grasp on this problem?  Maybe the communications
: packages they are running?  The speed or setup of their printer?

I'm not sure I have a grasp on the problem, nor the 'proper' way to fix 
it, but if I slow my modem down from its normal 19600 0r 14400 to 2400 or 
even 1200, the pine Y prYnt command works, otherwise is skips blocks as 
noted above.  I'm sure there's a better way, and I've asked the same 
question myself several times, but the answer I get is 'it's a 
communications or handshake problem' but no solution, so my workaround to 
temporarily slow down the modem, may not be pretty, but it works.  BYE.

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From: [email-masked] (Bob Manson)
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 21:11:08 GMT

Do you have the "preserve-start-stop-characters" set in the SETUP
CONFIGURATION menu?  Just a thought.

				bob

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 6 Jun 1995 21:11:03 GMT

Bob Manson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Do you have the "preserve-start-stop-characters" set in the SETUP
: CONFIGURATION menu?  Just a thought.
: 				bob

Yes, any other ideas ??

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 08:45:06 -0700 (PDT)

You might check with your local sysadmin and verify that the Unix you are
using is configured to respect xon-xoff flow control.  Some are not.

-teg