It could be the timeout ?
Do you have the sources of the passprt program ?
(Personaly I could use it, it is a much cleaner solution 
than mine)

Gregory Doyle wrote:
> 
> 
> --
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:32:31   Tasos Chronis wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >In the printer section of global.conf it have something
> >like that :
> >
> >
> >if (strlen($_printer))
> >    foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
> >        $xxx = "'/usr/bin/webps ",$REMOTE_HOST,"'";
> >        printer { options "< %s"  command $$xxx  timeout 40 }
> >      done
> >endif
> >
> >My global.conf file is included. Don't remember if I did any other
> >changes
> >for REMOTE_HOST.
> >
> Learning from how you modified the global.conf file, I did the following to my 
>global.conf file
> 
> 
>  if (strlen($_printer))
>      foreach $xxx ($LIST_DELIM, $_printer)
>      $xxx = "'/usr/bin/passprt '";
>      printer { options "%s"  command $$xxx  timeout 40 }
>      done
>  endif
> 
> Anyhow this seems to route the printout to the local telnet printer, however for 
>some reason each print jobs bombs (ie. only a portion of the job gets the the local 
>telnet printer and the rest seems to get lost)
> 
> I then decided to change the global.conf file and change the printer line with the 
>following:
> 
>                                 printer { file "filename"}
> 
> Upon exiting DOSEMU, at the shell prompt I then do: passprt "filename"
> 
> When I do this I get the entire printjob printing at the local telnet printer.  
>Anybody know why this would be happening.  It seems somehow DOSEMU can send the 
>printout to a file, but something gets lost when I get DOSEMU to pipe it to the 
>executable script.  Anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> GP Doyle
> 
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