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Serial printing using XON/XOFF

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From: Thomas Muekusch
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 14:42
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I want to connect a serial plotter using XON/XOFF protocol to our server 
running Netware3.11 and PSERVER.NLM version 3.7.6. It 
all works quite fine until the connection between server and plotter is 
interrupted for some reason, e.g. a plotter failure or cabling problem. If the 
printserver is waiting for XON signal at that moment, it is nearly 
impossible to force the server to proceed. Even if I kill the faulty printjob, 
the server is still waiting for XON before serving the next job.
The only possibility I found is to unload the printserver (not a 
practicable way) or to connect a terminal instead of the 
plotter and transmit XON by pressing ^Q (also not a very good solution).

If anyone out there has a better idea( e.g. a better PSERVER.NLM), I would be 
very happy to hear about it!

 Thanks in advance!



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Subject: Serial printing using XON/XOFF
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