Subject: [netatalk-admins] Re: Netatalk vs. Hp DeskWriter 560C
From: Paul Sander (paul@wakawaka.com)
Date: Sun Dec 05 1999 - 08:17:56 EST
hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE wrote:
>At 5:29 Uhr +0100 05.12.1999, Paul Sander wrote:
>>The problem I'm having is that after the file finishes printing, the
>>connection to the printer appears to remain open. I must interrupt pap to
>>regain control of my shell. The printer remains locked (after killing pap),
>>and I am unable to print another file from either the NetBSD box or a regular
>>Mac. According to the HP PrintMonitor program on the Mac, the printer is
>>busy printing.
>>
>>The connection eventually times out a few minutes after pap is killed, and
>>the printer becomes available again. The connection does not seem to time
>>out while pap is running.
>From the nights that I spent on getting a QMS-PS 410 to work with netatalk
>over a HW bridge ISTR that there is an option that lets pap not wait for
>the goodbye kiss from the printer:
> -E Do not wait for EOF from printer after spooling the
> job. Some printers forget to send EOF after receiv-
> ing large jobs.
>-- during said nights, I sync'ed the pap man page with reality, so I cannot
>tell if this is listed in the original manpage. I really should wrap up my
>changes and submit them to asun...
The -E option seems to be exactly what I need.
It's not documented in the man pages distributed with the system. That
might have changed in v1.4.1, but I have not yet gotten around to upgrading.
Thanks!!
-- Paul M. Sander | Every day is a weekend when you work for a startup paul@wakawaka.com | company.
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