| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
Cross posted in WPS-PLUS conference (1365.0) -------------------------------------------- Hello, I have a customer, who is using ALL-IN-1 V2.4, and when printing pound signs to a Cannon printer via a print queue it prints out ok, but when printed to the same printer via a port he gets a '2' instead???!!! I asked him to print the same document to the queue using the foreground formatter to see if this gave the same result but it did not! Has anyone any ideas, why this would happen ? Also, to confuse you even more, he has 2 users which when say receiving mail, one of them can see the pound sign straight away, but when they log out and log back in again, the pound sign changes to a # and remains a #. The other user sees this the opposite way round. They first view the pound sign as a hash, but after logging out and then in again, it appears as a pound sign and stays a pound sign!! They are using PC's with Pathworks, but the same thing is happening if they use a VT terminal. One of the pc's (the one that see's the pound sign first then the #) is set to 7 bit and the other to 8 bit. Has anyone ever heard of this happening before as I am totally confused... Emma.
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| 3389.1 | Sounds like a terminal/queue/port setup problem | SCOTTC::MARSHALL | Spitfire Drivers Do It Topless | Wed Oct 13 1993 21:45 | 14 |
My recommendation to the basenoter is to set all the terminal lines to 8 bit if possible, to allow the DEC MCS character set to be transmitted correctly. Make sure everything everywhere is configured for eight bits, and understands the DEC MCS character set. I suspect the print queue is converting the MCS pound sign to a character the printer understands, but that when printing via the port, no usch conversion is being performed. Without having access to the printer, its manual showing printable character tables, your VT terminals and lines, etc, it's hard to say anything more specific, or suggest how you can get pound signs on the port printer. Most printers these days have such characters as the pound sign user-definable anyway, maybe that would be the best thing to do? Scott | |||||
| 3389.2 | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2 | Wed Oct 13 1993 22:18 | 22 | |
| 3389.3 | similar on Laserjets ? | TOPPER::BARHAM | Norbert: | Tue Dec 07 1993 20:11 | 62 |