Thanks for your reply, but unfortunately we don't have "status@" in the printcap file, so I'm still head scratching. I didn't include the printcap entry in the original mail, as it does work fine for short documents. I can send it if anyone thinks the problem may lie there and wants to see it?
Kind regards
Angie
At 08:44 AM 9/17/03 -0400, you wrote:
Angie Saxton wrote: > > I hope someone in the group may have solved this problem. I have to set up > some serial printers, all HP lasers of one flavor or another. > > I can cat files (postscript) directly to the ports and get output. I can > send files via LPRng and get output, but in both cases larger files are > truncated. > > On an LPRng HOWTO page I found this symptom reported as a problem with > closing_wait, and to use setserial to change the default from 30 seconds. > This isn't the case here, as our closing_wait is set to infinite. > > The supplier of the serial card suggested holding the port open with a cat > command. This does work for files sent directly to the port, and they are > not truncated. It does not work with LPRng which complains that the device > is busy, and gives no output. > > Any ideas please? > This probably isn't your problem, but ... we had a similar problem (though printer was not serial but networked with an external JetDirect box), which was fixed by removing "status@" from the printcap entry - that is, turning on status monitoring. (I forget why this had been in the printcap entry in the first place (following some example or comment somewhere), but I'm pretty sure this is what fixed the problem.)
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