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Conference kernel::unix_printing

Title:	Printing from UNIX

Moderator:	KERNEL::COFFEYJ

Created:	Thu Dec 17 1992
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	956
Total number of notes:	2876

927.0. "okidata printing problems" by MAIL1::YATES () Thu Apr 03 1997 23:39

We are having a problem with printing from DEC Unix V3.2c where occasionally we get a message at the top of the output page that reads:

3536 dfA319ppgrsap1 (where ppgrsap1 is our SAP hostname)

The correct output follows, but form feed is affected.  We feel the first number "was" the PID of the child lpd process and the df# is the actual file name.

How can we stop these from printing and what causes these messages to print.

Thanks in advance,
Tom

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927.1 ILLUSN::SORNSON Are all your pets called 'Eric'? Mon Apr 07 1997 16:13 28

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927.1		ILLUSN::SORNSON	Are all your pets called 'Eric'?	`Mon Apr 07 1997 16:13`	28
	re .0 >We are having a problem with printing from DEC Unix V3.2c where >occasionally we get a message at the top of the output page that reads: > >3536 dfA319ppgrsap1 (where ppgrsap1 is our SAP hostname) > >The correct output follows, but form feed is affected. We feel the first >number "was" the PID of the child lpd process and the df# is the actual >file name. > >How can we stop these from printing and what causes these messages to print. Very strange. Can you provide the printcap entry for your printer? Can you reproduce this at will (by printing the same file to the same printer), or is it seemingly random? Do you have the problem when printing to a different kind of printer (which is a guess that it's filter based)? Are you running any patches for printing on top of V3.2? Have you tried printing to a 4.x system, and if so, do you also see the problem? This looks like a debug statement that got left in, but that's just a guess. -mark.

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>We are having a problem with printing from DEC Unix V3.2c where
>occasionally we get a message at the top of the output page that reads:
>
>3536 dfA319ppgrsap1 (where ppgrsap1 is our SAP hostname)
>
>The correct output follows, but form feed is affected.  We feel the first
>number "was" the PID of the child lpd process and the df# is the actual
>file name.
>
>How can we stop these from printing and what causes these messages to print.
    
    Very strange.  Can you provide the printcap entry for your printer? 
    Can you reproduce this at will (by printing the same file to the same
    printer), or is it seemingly random?  Do you have the problem when
    printing to a different kind of printer (which is a guess that it's
    filter based)?
    
    Are you running any patches for printing on top of V3.2?
    
    Have you tried printing to a 4.x system, and if so, do you also see the
    problem?
    
    This looks like a debug statement that got left in, but that's just a
    guess.
    
    -mark.