Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

860.0. "Problems with Print" by NAC::DSILVA () Wed May 31 1989 16:26

I'm having a problem when I try printing anything from a DECwindows
application. 

The applications are on a VMS V5.1 cluster and I'm using my workstation as
server. Whenever I try to print anything from either DECmail or DECwrite, the
application hangs for a while and then crashes with an access violation. 

This doesn't happen for applications executed locally on my VAXstation.
The versions are all V5.1.

Is there something I should be looking at?

Thanks,

-Vijay 

Included below is the dump of what happens when I run DECW$MAIL, select a
message and then hit print: 


delni> set displ/node=dsilva/creat
delni> mc decw$mail

                             (after 3-4 minutes)

%SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=01, virtual address=4B4D5354, PC
=80000010, PSL=03C00020

  Improperly handled condition, image exit forced.

        Signal arguments              Stack contents

        Number = 00000005                801BCA6E
        Name   = 0000000C                00000002
                 00000001                7FEB7D60
                 4B4D5354                7FEB7D48
                 80000010                00000004
                 03C00020                7FEBAD3D
                                         00000001
                                         7FEBB771
                                         7FEBAD17
                                         03000001

        Register dump

        R0 = 7FEBAD3D  R1 = 4B4D5354  R2 = 00000072  R3 = 7FEBB5D4
        R4 = 00303B20  R5 = 7FEBA8AC  R6 = 00168504  R7 = 000E19B0
        R8 = 00000000  R9 = 00000001  R10= 7FEBBA8C  R11= 00168504
        AP = 7FEB7CFC  FP = 7FEB7CBC  SP = 7FEB7D38  PC = 80000010
        PSL= 03C00020

There's a bug in the current version of the print widget where it allows a
maximum of 100 print queues and 100 print forms.  Could this be your problem?

				steve

I counted the number of print queues & forms: 62 and ~25 respectively.  There
are also 61 server queues.

Do you think that the print widget is trying to deal with both the printer and
the server queues?  That would total 123.

Do you know of a way around this - apart from deleting the queues on the
cluster which I would hardly mind but have no access to. 

Thanks for the reply.

-Vijay

In order to get the print widget to deal with bunches of queues in a more 
efficient way, you might try something like this in your system startup (after
DECwindows has been started). 

$@SYS$MANAGER:DECW$LOGICALS
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_TEXT 	"ADMIN,CST1,MED,MISQ,RPG,SYS$PRINT,YWO_LPS_ANSI"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_LINE	"ADMIN,CST1,MED,MISQ,RPG,SYS$PRINT,YWO_LPS_ANSI"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_TERM  	"ADMIN,CST1,MED,MISQ,RPG,YWO_LPS_ANSI"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_ANSI  	"ADMIN,CST1,MED,MISQ,RPG,YWO_LPS_ANSI"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_ANSI2  	"ADMIN,CST1,MED,MISQ,RPG,YWO_LPS_ANSI"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_PS  	"YWO_LPS_POST"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_REGIS  	"YWO_LPS_REGIS"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_TEK  	"YWO_LPS_TEK4014"
$ DECW$DEFINE	DECW$PRINTER_FORMAT_DDIF  	"ADMIN,CST1,MED,MISQ,RPG,SYS$PRINT,YWO_LPS_ANSI"

These logicals will go into the DECW$LOGICAL_NAMES table and will really help
the performance of the print widget.  Please note that for each printer format
type, I am pointing the logicals at the GENERIC queues on the cluster (except 
for the LPS40 queues).  

Try it.  You'll like it.

	- Dave