Subject: printing from pine

From: Mike <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:44:25 -0400 (EDT)

When I print from pine, chunks of the message are missing. How can I fix
this?

I have an old Tandy 1000 sx with a Tandy dot matrix printer, DMP 130A.
When I turn on the PC it says "Memory 384K". I load DOS on the A: drive
and Kermit on the B:. There is no C: drive.

I figure the very small memory is my problem. As pine down loads to my
printer it runs out of memory and thus the gaps of info in the printed 
message.

What if anything can I do? Is there some way to slow Pine or have it pace
with my meager PC and memory?

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:51:34 +0800 (GMT)

> with my meager PC and memory?

	Doesn't sound like a pine problem.

	There is most likely a problem between your PC and your printer.
Your old PC is still faster then your printer.  That is, the PC can
send information to the printer faster than the printer can print.
Generally, the printer has a "buffer" memory which will hold some of
the data as it comes in.  However, when the buffer comes close to being
full the printer needs to signal the PC to stop sending data.  This is
normally accomplished thru XON/XOFF control.  

	Sounds like your printer/PC/setup is not configured for proper
XON/XOFF.

	A way which may prove this would be to send a large text file
to the printer without the use of pine.  i.e. the normal print function
of your PC.  If it is an XON/XOFF problem then you should see similar
results.

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: "Hiram Lester Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:40:54 -0500 (CDT)

> of your PC.  If it is an XON/XOFF problem then you should see similar

XON/XOFF is only used on serial connections (serial printers).  Parallel
printers use a hardware flow control.

The problem does sound like a buffer overflow problem, though.  If you are
using a modem or other direct serial connection, it could be a flow
control problem between your computer and the remote host.

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