Re: {bb} OT - Last ditch effort - Need to find old Novell info

[Misty Stanley-Jones <misty@borkholder.com>]

For good form I should let you know what the solution was.  SAMBA was sending 
raw data to CUPS but CUPS was trying to print it as postscript and failing.  
As soon as I made a truly raw print queue in CUPS for it, it all worked!

Misty

On Friday 17 December 2004 12:41, Charles Jones wrote:
> It's been about 4 years since I worked in a mixed Novell/NT/Unix
> environment. I do remember having all kinds of issues with printing.  If
> I recall, for whatever reason, the only mapping that would work
> correctly 100% of the time in "DOS mode" (DOS or Win 3.x) was the
> mappings to LTP1. This seems to be the same thing you are experiencing.
> Perhaps you can change his printer to LTP3 and move the network printer
> capture to LTP1?  I went through similar problems trying to get DBASE4
> to print to a network printer, and the only way it would work was if the
> network printer was captured as LTP1.
>
> -Charles
>
> Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> >I think what is actually happening is that QB is getting screwed up with
> >variable names that are too long.  I looked closely at what QB and Notepad
> >showed, and QB is actually cutting part of the lines off!  I don't really
> >know what to do about it or now they compiled it in the first place.  I
> >looked at the line feeds with the "Joe" editor and they all look to be in
> >place -- a ^M at the end of each line.  Wordpad also shows them fine, and
> > in my experience Wordpad is more picky.  So it must be something else. 
> > But I think it is really something to do with the way the printer 'looks'
> > to Windows.On Novell the user is logged in as a local-to-the-machine
> > user.  In a NT domain the user is logged in as local-to-the-domain with
> > no inherent rights to the machine.  All the printing works just fine to a
> > physical port on the user's computer (he has a printer on LPT1).  But
> > anything sent to LPT3 just disappears (I see it in the print queue for a
> > few seconds and then it is just gone).  I am able to "copy" files to LPT1
> > but not LPT3.  LPT3 was created using "net use LPT3:
> > \\corpsrv\engr_hp1300" command.  Under Novell it was created using the
> > "Novell Print Capture" feature, and it works there. Don't know if it's
> > because there is a local computer account with Novell or because of
> > something else.
> >
> >Misty
> >
> >On Friday 17 December 2004 11:19, you wrote:
> >>Hi Misty,
> >>
> >>Have you looked at the source in an editor that shows the CRLFs?  You
> >> have have an extra character in there, or they may be in the wrong order
> >> - both would look fine in Notepad, but fail in a compiler.
> >>
> >>If you have a *NIX box available, try using tr or sed to process the file
> >>and strip off the existing CRLF combinations.
> >>
> >>Al
> >>
> >>(I replied directly to minimize OT traffic on the list).
> >>
> >>On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> >>>On Thursday 16 December 2004 17:12, Charles Jones wrote:
> >>>>>The other thing is I can't just recompile the program.  For some
> >>>>> reason it no longer compiles cleanly (it looks like the CRLF's are
> >>>>> all screwed up for some reason).  So I really need to make it work in
> >>>>> place.
> >>>>
> >>>>Have you tried running the source through dos2unix to clean up the
> >>>>CRLF's?
> >>>
> >>>Well I tried unix2dos actually. :)  The odd thing is that the file looks
> >>>fine in Notepad but when I run it in qb.exe to debug it, half the crlf's
> >>>are just not there.
> >>>
> >>>>-Charles
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