[27266] in Athena Bugs
Re: hexagons go awry on w20color
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Dec 16 23:37:01 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:35:54 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Sorry, I'm afraid your response just raises more questions in
my puny-little head :)
Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 16 Dec 2008
at 23:24:30 -0500 in <DD152A4E-3144-4F90-8AF0-AC0D4FF59E6E@MIT.EDU>:
> I don't know about "breach of the Athena rules", that sounds like something
> that got lost in translation.
Indeed.
> I do know that Copytech charges money for rentals of their Mac and PC
> workstations, so perhaps that was the problem.
No, apparently they've stopped charging for that (it was my first thought
too).
>> Did you try that? (Also, did you try -Zduplex?)
>
> I did not try -Zduplex (which should behave identically to spooling to the
> duplex queue), nor did I try the web interface on the printer.
So, to be 100% clear, the job worked fine without any duplexing?
> I obtained said code from /mit/consult/lib/ps/duplex.ps, which is part of
> lpr2 (and I don't really want to start recommending that to users, given
> its cruftiness)
Sure, I mean, that's the right stuff to add. I was just speculating
on what the duplex bounce queue might do differently.
--jhawk
