Subject: Re: using pap(1) with networked DeskWriter560C ?
From: Software Development (junkyard@primate.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 03 1996 - 11:32:19 EDT
> Has anyone managed to spool to a Macintosh network-connected
> DeskWriter560C (or any of its kin)? I can create a file of raw printer
> data using gs(1) and send it to such a DeskWriter560C using pap(1) (I
> found that I have to add a ^Z to the end of the file to get the last page
> to eject). All pages print correctly; however, pap never exits, and
> papstatus(1) reports the printer as "busy" forever. When I eventuall kill
> off pap, the printer stays "busy" for part of a minute, then returns to
> its idle state.
I'm trying to do this myself with a DeskWriter 540 under MkLinux and
I see the same thing (except that the printer just disappears from the
network after it times out). Has anyone managed to figure out what's
going on here?
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
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