| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
Hello !!
A customer use VT420 terminals and on certain of those i had connected
a LA75 printer as printer port. It works without problem eccept if the
the printer is OFFLINE, in this case when he try print to the printer
port the file is printed on the terminal witch is normal, but the result
is that th terminal is set in is setup in 1x72 lines in place of 3x24
lines, and ALL-IN-1 does not support more than 24 lines per scren.
This means that the terminal VT420 execute the initialisation escape
sequences sended to the printer ???
I would like to know if this is correct and if there is a workaround or
what can i say to the customer.
ALL-IN-1 v2.4
I tested it in ALL-IN-1 v3.0 the problem is the same.
Thank you for your help.
Regards
David Blanchard @ZSW
DTN 7-753 2320
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1008.1 | Lesser of two evils? | PRESS1::HOWARD | Our business is computers not money | Fri Jul 10 1992 19:11 | 19 |
David,
I think there used to be more checks to see if the user had a printer
attached. But the check was made by doing a $SET TERM/INQUIRE, then
looking at the value of PORT in VMS. Unfortunately, if a user didn't
have the printer turned on when they logged in, it didn't work. If the
text goes to the terminal when the printer is turned off, then I think
it is reasonable to expect that the "escape" sequences will too." You
might look into customizing. ALL-IN-1 has some sort of OA$TRM_INQUIRE
function, which I've never been able to get to work. But you could
probably use it to verify that there is a printer each time the user
prints a document. You might also just send the sequences which reset
the number of lines on the terminal after each job prints.
ALL-IN-1 will generally support more than 24 lines in V2.4, although
not in WPS-PLUS V3.1. In V2.3, there is less support, but
some things work.
Ben
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| 1008.2 | workaround used. | LEMAN::BLANCHARD | Blanchard David @ZSW DTN 753 2320 | Mon Jul 27 1992 14:40 | 11 |
Ben,
Thank you for your info, I told those thinks to the customer and we
talked about using specific printer table like LA75_port_vt420.pra with
a termination sequence into it.
Thank you again for your help.
Regards
David
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