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In message Mon, 23 May 1994 14:20:28 -0700 (PDT),
  "Chuck McDaniels, UCR Academic Computing" <CHUCKM@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU>  writes:

> Date sent:  23-MAY-1994 14:16:16
>
> Hi!
>
> I hope someone can help me with this peculiar problem.  We have probably
> a few hundred users of NUPop here at UC Riverside.  One is able to use it
> without trouble, but when she tries to print, various of characters are
> left out of the output (it appears fine on the screen).
>
> The interesting thing to me is that, when we print a message to a file,
> and then print that file from DOS, it looks fine (no missing characters).
> There is no reliability to the characters that are dropped.. sometimes
> they are spaces, but they can just as likely be almost any character.
>
> She is using NUPop 2.0.2 on a 386 clone with 10MB of memory, running DOS
> 6.2. The printer in question is an HP LaserJet II connected via LPT1 to
> the computer.
>
> Please e-mail me directly, with any words of wisdom you might have and
> I'll summarize to the rest after awhile, should I get anything helpful.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Chuck :-)
>
> Chuck McDaniels, Systems Consultant
> Academic Computing Services
> University of California, Riverside
>
> chuckm@ucrac1.ucr.edu
>

I'm not aware of any printing problem of this type.  NUPop prints using
standard Pascal I/O which maps directly to standard DOS file I/O, so
there's nothing peculiar about the way printer I/O is done.

-- Phil "Pib" Burns
   Northwestern University
   Evanston, IL.  USA
   pib@nwu.edu