Conference iosg::all-in-1

2539.0. "printing ASCII with accents" by VAXRIO::63079::valeria () Tue Feb 25 1997 21:33

	Hi

	my customer changed the value of OA$MTI_TRNS from 0 to 1 on one
node which uses ALL-IN-1 3.0A. He sent a message from this node to another 
node which has ALL-IN-1 3.2 with OA$MTI_TRNS = 0. This ASCII message
is received and read on 3.2 with no problem, but if he try to print it on a LATSYM
queue, all accents appear incorrect. If the same message is printed on the PORT
destination, the message appears ok. I've already changed the WPSPLUS 
formatting from N to Y on the ASCII EDT format (in fact, I changed all ASCII xxx)
with no success...  
	Any idea ?? 
	Thanks,
	Valeria.

$ sh queue pla1040/full
Terminal queue PLA1040, idle, on PLAV03::LTA9040:, mounted form DEFAULT
  <Area: Compras,Server: PLAS48/PORT_8>
  /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /BLOCK_LIMIT=1000 /DEFAULT=(FORM=DEFAULT) Lowercase 
  /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=LATSYM /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) 
  /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)
$ sh term lta9040
Terminal: _LTA9040:   Device_Type: LA120         Owner: SYMBIONT_9
                                              Username: SYSTEM

   Input:    9600     LFfill:  0      Width: 132      Parity: None
   Output:   9600     CRfill:  0      Page:   66      

Terminal Characteristics:
   Interactive        Echo               No Typeahead       No Escape
   No Hostsync        TTsync             Lowercase          Tab
   Wrap               Hardcopy           No Remote          Eightbit
   No Broadcast       No Readsync        Form               Fulldup
   No Modem           No Local_echo      No Autobaud        Hangup
   No Brdcstmbx       No DMA             No Altypeahd       Set_speed
   No Commsync        No Line Editing    Overstrike editing No Fallback
   No Dialup          No Secure server   No Disconnect      Pasthru
   No Syspassword     No SIXEL Graphics  No Soft Characters No Printer Port
   Numeric Keypad     No ANSI_CRT        No Regis           No Block_mode
   No Advanced_video  No Edit_mode       No DEC_CRT         No DEC_CRT2
   No DEC_CRT3        No DEC_CRT4        No DEC_CRT5        No Ansi_Color
   VMS Style Input

Device spooled to _DKA0:

 Image Identification Information

                image name: "LATSYM"
                image file identification: "V6.0-040"
                image file build identification: "X61Q-SSB-0000"
                link date/time:  4-MAY-1995 22:55:46.63
                linker identification: "A11-12"

   

The first thing to determine is if the accents are being lost during
formatting or printing. 

Do the following:

1.  Pause or Stop the Print queue.

2.  From ALL-IN-1 select the message and print it.  It should be formatted 
    on the OA$FORMATTER queue and a print job created, but it will not be 
    printed.

3.  Do a SHOW QUEUE/FULL/ALL of the print queue to get the file 
    specification of the print file.

    Examine the print file, using DUMP/RECORD, TYPE or an ASCII editor, to
    determine if it contains the correct accented characters.
  

Richard

	Hi Richard

>1.  Pause or Stop the Print queue.

>2.  From ALL-IN-1 select the message and print it.  It should be formatted
>    on the OA$FORMATTER queue and a print job created, but it will not be
>    printed.

>3.  Do a SHOW QUEUE/FULL/ALL of the print queue to get the file
>    specification of the print file.

>    Examine the print file, using DUMP/RECORD, TYPE or an ASCII editor, to
>    determine if it contains the correct accented characters.
 
Ok, I did this test...   The file shows some strange characters... I printed this file
to the printer with the  PRINT command, and the file was printed with error.
After, I copied the file directly to the port LTA9040: and was printed ok.
I printed again with command PRINT/PASSALL and was printed correctly.
So, I changed the parameter PASSALL to Y on Printer Type DESKJET (the 
destination type used for the customer) and now it's ok.

I don't know if it is the best to do, but it's working fine.

	Thanks !
	Valeria.