This was reported to me, as well as some other problems with job name formats. Apparently some printers do not like punctuation characters put out to the LED display.
So I am going to try to sanitize this issue. By the way, from RFC1179 the limit on JOBNAME is 99 chars /* JOBNAME 'J' RFC: 99 char limit */ #define M_JOBNAME 99 > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 30 12:40:44 2003 > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:40:38 -0400 > From: Tom Kacvinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HP printers, -J, and garbage on cover sheet. > > Hi Patrick, > > I discovered a rather nasty surprise yesterday... > > If I use LPRng's -J option for lpr (to specify the job name on the cover sheet), > and the text specified is longer than X character (X has yet to be determined), > the job otion text prints, but is followed by garbage. > > I used the -D 6 option to see what lpr was doing, and everything looked kosher. > > My suspicion is that this is a bug in the printer's firmware. Thought you might > to know about this. It affects HP LaserJet 4200s/9000s. I will double check on > the firmware issue. > > Regards, > > Tom > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
