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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit
- Subject: Re: Problem with lp. Got me stumped. (email, I'll sum)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 04:16:15 -0500
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <1hu0hfINNicm@spool.mu.edu> marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach) writes:
- >What happens when it doesn't work is the softfonts get
- >'munged' aka the 1 refuses to print in one of the fonts, the y
- >and other characters in another, ad nausium.
-
- Yep, I've seen this one. The only difference was that the soft fonts
- were part of the output of a DVI->LaserJet converter.
-
- The problem is that Esix's parallel port driver is terminally broken.
- Esix acknowledges that even in 4.0.4, their driver drops characters
- all over the place with lots of different laser printers (including
- printers made by Abaton, an Everex subsidiary. They did not have any
- plans to fix it the last time I talked to them, which was a couple
- months ago. As far as I could see their official line was to try one
- of the PD polling parallel port drivers if I *had* to use the parallel
- port; otherwise, use a serial port to talk to the printer.
-
- I was not impressed with Esix's handling of the situation; in fact, it
- was this problem that convinced me once and for all that Esix is not
- an appropriate OS for use in a production environment. It's one thing
- to have a bug in your driver. It's another thing entirely to (a) have
- the bug in two subsequent releases of the OS; (b) have no fix for
- something as basic as correct parallel port output; and (c) not even
- have PLANS to release a fix at some point. And people still wonder
- why SCO does so well...
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Of course, in order to understand this you
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | have to remember that the nucleus of the atom
- | is squishy."
- | -W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-