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Hello Folks!

We, Newfoundland Offshore Contractors, are in a bind concerning our
Decserver 300s and I'd like to know if anyone of you have any simmilar
experience.

As you may know, the Decserver 300 software has been updated to include
support for Telnet and all the related attributes. The software revision
we have is BL34-C2, which I'm assured by DEC is the latest.

Our problem is as follows. We have set up each Decserver 300 to have a
port as Telnet listener. This listener is port 2001, logically. The port
is set for "remote" and we have a printer connected to it.

Now, we have a new Data General Aviion box sending it's print jobs using
'lp' through the network, using the "termprinter" definitions that are
set for a Telnet Port 2001. The Decserver's ip address is define
properlly in the '/etc/hosts' file.

Ok, it prints... but we experience 2 distinct problems, and we think the
Decserver or the network connection in general may be the cause, because
these problems cannot be duplicated when a printer is connected directly
to the DG's parallel port.

 Problems :
		1. Printer times out for 5 minutes on average between 
		   jobs. Never quite stable pattern for size, etc ..

		Remark: The Decserver 300 Internet count show a sharp
			increase in "dropped" connections during this
			pseudo "timeout". At the same time, the port
			is idle and not XOFfed.

		2. Printer receives a spurious <CR> character at the 
		   beginning of each job. This is important, because
		   we have an "intelligent" check-printing box that
		   looses count and VOIDS everything.

		Remark: The checkprinter also suffers from (1.)

Now, I know that a DG isn't a DEC box, but I had hopped that it wouldn't
matter, since 'lp' is also used by Ultrix. So, if anyone out there uses
a Decstation 5000 or any other Unix box, especially a DG, with a
Decserver 300 for printing using 'lp' or any Telnet Listener
configuration, please send me E-mail.

Thank You all.


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