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We are running AT&T's lp on our Symmetry (DYNIX 3.0.12) and have
been experiencing som "oddities" with the system.  (Note: this
is Sequent's release of lp, we have a dual universe system.)

	1. Print jobs seem to stop for no obvious reason
 	   before they are realy finished although lp thinks
	   it is done spooling.

	2. Print jobs get messed up/garbaged as though there
	   was no flow control.  In fact, I have tried both
	   CTS/RTS and XON/XOFF and verified that both are
	   working (using a breakout box).

	3. When using _lpr_, and a job was active, I could NOT
	   stty (stty </dev/ttyxn) the port.  The stty request
	   was held until the lpr job finished.

	   With _lp_ I CAN stty the port (stty >/dev/ttyxb) 
	   during a job, and found out that lp is using the 
	   _new_ tty driver, but resets back to the old driver 
	   after the job is done.  Other than the driver itself,
	   nothing seems to be changed.


	4. At times (seemingly random) an lp job simply won't 
	   print unless I disable and (re-)enable the printer.

	5. Lp seems to use up a lot of inodes (pstat -T) and
	   may not be closing files after printing them.  (This
	   is suspected, but not yet verified.)

Have you experienced any of these problems, or better yet, do you
have a fix. BTW, we have disabled lpr and are only running lp.

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