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Article #1925Re: Having problem with locally attached printer to Radio Shack DT100
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 08:21
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1988 08:21
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In article <560@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes: < < At one of the companies I work at, they have several DT100 terminals, which <I believe are probably Liberty OEM terminals, that are connected to locally <attached printers through the terminals printer port. Ocassionally, when the <terminals are turned on, the login prompt (ther terminals are connected <to a 6000 system running Xenix) gets sent out the printer port (and prints <on the printer). Control returns immediately to the terminal keyboard, so <that a user can enter their login and password (this doesn't appear on the <printer, ie. local print is turned off). Has anyone else ever experienced <problems like this? If so, what was the problem (and your solution). < One idea I just had (but since I'm not at the system can't test) is that <the clear screen sequence at the beginning of a session is causing the <printer to go into local print mode. However, that wouldn't explain how <the terminal got back to normal mode and allowed a login. I'm assuming, <but not totally sure, that the problem is with the terminal and not with <Xenix (something in the 'is' field in termcap might be the culprit). < Again, I would appreciate any help. < < Jeff White < Drexel University - ECE Dept. < rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff Well, I've got a DT-100 at home. From what I've been told it's a relabeled Wyse-75. I can only suggest a couple of possibilities: 1. the clear screen is doing a "print line" or some such 2. the termcap is flaky. (I know for a *fact* that there are at least two errors in the 600 Xenix termcap entries for the dt-100.) By the way, I've yet to find *any* kind of lockup that I can't clear with shift-setup. (now if that would only clear the mis-set tabs...) -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'. You know... I'd rather be a hacker."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Having problem with locally attached printer to Radio Shack DT100 Message-ID: <785@bucket.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 88 08:21:52 GMT References: <560@drexel.UUCP> Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR Lines: 39 Keywords: DT100 printer port