Conference turris::digital_unix

8941.0. "Printer Help" by LEXSS1::CANUTE (It's Magic!!!) Mon Feb 24 1997 14:44

    	I've a customer that prints to a dumb printer by using the
    directional signal. IE:	cat file.txt > /dev/lat/620
    
    	Yes this is DUNIX V3.2D-1 and the printing is done to a barcode
    making printer on a lat line. We can print fine after mega testing. But
    since this is a dumb printer, the customer sends a series of commands
    that the printer answers fine on VMS but not on the DUNIX side. The
    commands are sent to find out if the printer is available, has paper
    etc.....  As I stated earlier, we can get the correct output we want
    sending to the printer (via lat), but when we ask for a response from
    the printer we get nothing....
    
    	The lat terminal setup:
    
    latcp -A -p620 -Hlat003 -Rport_14
    	I did NOT add the terminal into /etc/inittab since it cannot be a
    queued printer....
    
    	Any ideas on what I forgot to do????
    
    	Thanks in advance