Strange Printing Problem ...

[C M Reinehr]

On Mon 29 November 2010 09:01:18 am Ben Duncan wrote:
> Ok, this one INVOLVES a convoluted method.
>
> I have a client that we put on Slackware 13.0 with VM Server to host
> a SCO Open Server application called Soflex - Really, really OLD!!
>
> The Soflex uses a PORT called lpout to direct it's print. The NEW machine
> does not have any LP ports installed. We have switched to net Print
> Devices.
>
> SOFLEX REQUIRES a physical PRINT DEVICE to print to. I circumvented that
> by making lpout a named pipe and writing a SCO print filter that runs from
> the data ibn lpout.
>
> The problem I run into is when the a LONG print Job (more than 2 pages)
> gets run, the print gets mangled. Heading appears in middle of the page,
> Strange characters getting inserted ...etc..etc...
>
>
> Any ideas ?

Sounds like an old-fashioned flow control/buffer overflow problem.

cmr

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