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List:       netatalk
Subject:    Re: [netatalk-admins] Connection to DeskJet not being closed...
From:       Tim Buller <buller () math ! ukans ! edu>
Date:       1998-02-24 18:56:34
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Michael Zuelsdorff wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> > 	I'm making progress in getting a Solaris host to print to a
> > LocalTalk connected HP DeskJet 870Cxi, but I have run up against a problem
> > I can't figure out. For some reason, after a document has printed
> > successfully, the connection to the printer is not getting closed.
> > 
> > Then I print the file:
> > 
> > $ gs -q \
> > -dNOPAUSE \
> > -sDEVICE=cdj550 \
> > -sOutputFile='|/usr/local/atalk/bin/pap -p \
> > "DeskJet 870C in 405B:DeskWriter@Math"' \
> > /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10/examples/colorcir.ps \
> > -c quit
> > 
> > And then the printer stays busy until it is powered off and back on:
> 
> Try piping the job to: pap -E -p "....", this works for my standard
> Deskwriter.  -E ?!? No, it's not in the man-page. Have a look at pap.c -
> there are even more switches (and crazy defines :-). 

Hey, that took care of it straight away... 

Strangely enough I was using the same #define verbally in my negotiations
with the machine :)

Vielen Dank,

	Tim

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Tim Buller                                       buller@math.ukans.edu
Systems Specialist                       Snow Hall 643, (785) 864-7311
Department of Mathematics     University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045

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