Here's my original message:
> Okay, I'm desperate. I've talked to the Pine team and they're stumped so
> I bring this to you folks. We're on an Alpha 3600 running Digital Unix
> 3.2. Our mail system of choice is Pine. The majority of our users
> communicate to the Alpha by LAT connections to our DECserver 500s (yeah,
> they're big, old, and expensive so we're replacing them gradually). If
> there are any Pine users out there, maybe you can help or at least tell
> me if the problem is widespread.
>
> When an asynch user tries to print a fairly long (more than one screen)
> message to their attached printer, it will print the first 2/3 and then
> start dropping carriage returns and finally discard the remainder of the
> message. This does NOT happen with users on 'telnet'. It's not the
> terminal emulation; it happens with SmarTerm 220, Kermit, and on DEC VT
> terminals. David Miller on the Pine team gave me a program called
> 'ansiprt' which prints the passthru escape sequences and sends everything
> from stdin to stdout. If you export any of these failing messages to a
> file and print them with 'ansiprt', they print fine. David M. tells me
> that the method used by 'ansiprt' is very similar to that used by Pine.
> The only difference I could see is that Pine does an 'fflush' at the end.
>
> I've been corresponding with the Pine folks for over a week now and, to
> their credit, they've really tried to solve this. I'm just curious now
> if there are others using Digital Unix and LAT and Pine and may be in a
> similar boat or, better yet, solved it. Any clues would be _greatly_
> appreciated. Thanks.
Some people suggested communications problems with our terminal servers
but they've been working fine for years. What we've discovered since my
original post is just as confusing. If I use an older parallel printer,
it works fine. If I use an newer parallel printer or a serial printer,
it chops the message off after about a page. If I use the Pine pipe
command to pipe it to 'ansiprt', it prints form feeds only. However, if
I exit pine I can always 'cat' the file and pipe it to 'ansiprt' and it
works fine. It's definitely a puzzler but at least we're seeing some
sort of pattern developing.
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
newcomer_at_dickinson.edu P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
"If God is your co-pilot, switch seats!"
Received on Thu Aug 24 1995 - 19:42:52 NZST