[17737] in Athena Bugs
Re: Star Office: produces infinitely spewing print jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Apr 6 13:19:38 2000
Message-Id: <200004061719.NAA16299@dit.mit.edu>
To: krastogi@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU, rlgarcia@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[17734] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:19:33 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hello,
I'm looking into your Star Office printing bug report:
>User krastogi has Star Office configs which reproduceably cause Star
>Office to create postscript files which print endless copies of their
>first page.
>You can find a copy of the spewing postscript file in
>/mit/krastogi/Public/Consultant Reports2.ps
Your PostScript file has lines like:
/#copies 256 def
which tells the printer to print 256 copies of each page and which seems to
explain the observed behavior.
I'm not sure exactly how this happened though. Could you copy one of
the trees ~/.Office51.i386_linux3, ~/.Office51.sun4x_56 to somewhere
where I can read everything in them? (I need the one for the platform
that you created this file on- either Linux or Sun). If you have
documents you don't want me to see, move them out of the work
subdirectory or wherever else you might have put them before you
make the copy accessible.
Also- do you get this problem all the time now, or only for certain
files? Does it show up on both Sun and Linux machines or only on one
of these? Does it depend on what machine you are on (i.e. does it
happen on one particular Sun workstation but not on another)?
Thanks,
Alex Prengel
MIT Academic Computing Support Team
