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- From: erik@til.com (Erik Horstkotte)
- Subject: Re: SUN PC-NFS Printing problem.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.162527.10736@til.til.com>
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- Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
- References: <725219481.AA05059@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:25:27 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article AA05059@csource.oz.au, Bruce.Weinel@p1.f456.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Bruce Weinel) writes:
- >johnm@bowen.cc.utas.edu.au was heard in "The Pit" saying to All
- >
- > ju> From: johnm@bowen.cc.utas.edu.au (John Miezitis)
- > ju> Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
- > ju>
- > ju> One of my PC-NFS users here is having a problem printing
- > ju> directly to a redirected printer port...
- > ...
- > ju> If he net prints the file everything works.
- > ju>
- > ju> I tried the following:-
- > ju>
- > ju> copy xxx.ps u: file appears intact
- > ju>
- > ju> copy xxx.ps lpt2: Lost data, file size approx 3100 bytes.
- > ju>
- > ju> Printing directly to lpt2: from within application Lost
- > ju> data, file size now only approx 1100 bytes
- >
- >The most likely cause is DOS sensitivity to 1Ah (^Z) in sequential text files.
- >The DOS 'copy' command to a block device (u:) bases end-of-file on the size
- >stored in the directory, not file content.
-
- If this really is the problem, shouldn't doing
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- copy xxx.ps lpt2: /b
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- fix the problem?
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