On 08/03/11 21:33, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Mark Wickens<mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
Hi guys,
I have printing working to my LA75+ dot matrix printer via a spooled VMS
queue which communicates via LAT with the printer attached to a DECserver
90L+. Everything is working fine except for two issues:
1. I'd like to be able to print with a form definition which leaves a margin
at the top and bottom of the page. I tried this:
$ DEFINE/FORM LISTING 3
/WIDTH=132/PAGE=66/MARGIN=(TOP=6,BOTTOM=6)/STOCK=DEFAULT/NOWRAP/TRUNCATE
$ SET QUEUE/DEFAULT=FORM=LISTING LA75$PRINT_ALEPH$
I tried asking Hoff but I think he's sick of my 80's related questions, his
response was entitled:
Classic printing best left to masochistic perfectionists
<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/766#comment-2424>
(
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/766)
I think I'm almost there, but the printer appears to be ignoring the bottom
margin - I get a top margin fine, and the listing is not exhibiting
'rolling' ie the content of the output is aligned correctly on each page.
Anyone got any ideas what I can do? I want to be able to put listings in
vertical binders, and that just doesn't work without both top and bottom
margins being honoured.
Regards, Mark
Hello!
Mark I have several of those terminal servers here. How is yours
configured, and even wired to your system? (or systems?)
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at
gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
Hi Greg,
It is wired to a 10MB router that has both a 10base2 (BNC) connector and some 10baseT
(RJ45) connectors via a thin wire BNC cable connected to T-pieces with a 50 ohm terminator
on each end. The 10MB router is connected to a Netgear gigabit router via CAT-5 and then
out to the rest of the world.
I configured the terminal server by connecting a terminal/pc terminal emulator to port 1
via a DB9 to RJ45 cable. The management interface allows you to then specify the name of
the decserver and the name of the port, and whether it is a printer/terminal port, speed,
etc.
Once the port was configured I used the decserver/port name in the LAT configuration on
the VAX. I defined a virtual terminal pointing to that decserver/port then pointed the
printer queue to that.
The printer connects at 4800 baud to the specified printer port via a MMJ to MMJ cable
that came with it.
Hope that sheds some light,
Mark.