Subject: [netatalk-admins] Re: Netatalk vs. Hp DeskWriter 560C
From: Hauke Fath (hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE)
Date: Sun Dec 05 1999 - 07:00:26 EST
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.
pap sucks...
>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...
It may definitely be worth while to sprinkle pap.c with printf()s and see
what it's doing. There is even a "-DEBUG" (as in "-D EBUG") switch that
means to trace pap execution.
hauke
-- "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)
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