[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >At 5:29 Uhr +0100 05.12.1999, Paul Sander wrote: >>The problem I'm having is that after the file finishes printing, the >>connection to the printer appears to remain open. I must interrupt pap to >>regain control of my shell. The printer remains locked (after killing pap), >>and I am unable to print another file from either the NetBSD box or a regular >>Mac. According to the HP PrintMonitor program on the Mac, the printer is >>busy printing. >> >>The connection eventually times out a few minutes after pap is killed, and >>the printer becomes available again. The connection does not seem to time >>out while pap is running. >From the nights that I spent on getting a QMS-PS 410 to work with netatalk >over a HW bridge ISTR that there is an option that lets pap not wait for >the goodbye kiss from the printer: > -E Do not wait for EOF from printer after spooling the > job. Some printers forget to send EOF after receiv- > ing large jobs. >-- during said nights, I sync'ed the pap man page with reality, so I cannot >tell if this is listed in the original manpage. I really should wrap up my >changes and submit them to asun... The -E option seems to be exactly what I need. It's not documented in the man pages distributed with the system. That might have changed in v1.4.1, but I have not yet gotten around to upgrading. Thanks!! -- Paul M. Sander | Every day is a weekend when you work for a startup [EMAIL PROTECTED] | company.
