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- From: gahooten@yamato.arc.nasa.gov (Greg Hooten -- RCS)
- Subject: Printing problems on Stride
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.202829.9179@riacs.edu>
- Sender: news@riacs.edu
- Organization: NASA/Ames Research Center
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:28:29 GMT
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- Sorry about the duplication, but I missed the Subect line.
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- I have a friend who has a 600 Series UniStride Unix system running
- Version 2.1 of the OS. The OS is mostly System V Release 2, version
- 2, and has some BSD 4.3 extensions added in. The company who makes
- this system is now defunct. The machine has about 25 ports on the back,
- similar to phone jacks which are for serial lines. I have these lines
- going out to an RS-232 connector, and into the printer or terminal.
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- The problem I have is that for 5 years the system has printed, and now
- it does not. If I send data directly to a port, with a lighted display
- on the line, I see data going to the port, but the printer will not print.
- If I send data (using cat ) to a terminal, then the data appears fine
- with no problems, even ports the have been changed from printer ports to
- terminal ports with the inittab. The system simply will not print. I
- thought it was a problem with the printer, but 3 printers do not print, and
- all have printed in the past, and will print currently with PC's. I tried
- reloading the OS from an old backup that used to print, no luck. I tried lp
- and lpr, but neither prints (as you would expect if you cannot send to the port).
- I tried putting on a null modem cable, and several different cables. The data always
- seems to get to the lighted connector (the last thing in the line before the
- printers' port).
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- I am lost, and don't even know where else to look. Can anyone help me
- with this problem?
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- Greg Hooten
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