[1795] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: gltw, glte, glmp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Thu Oct 18 14:50:16 2001
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:53:31 -0400
To: Theresa M Regan <tregan@MIT.EDU>, "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "David M. Rosenberg" <Rosenberg@MIT.EDU>, debbie@MIT.EDU, mprudden@MIT.EDU,
zacheiss@MIT.EDU, printdel@MIT.EDU, r3-print@MIT.EDU
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Theresa,
Thank you, I was not sure if this was intentional or not. It was so we are
all set on that issue.
Lynne
At 02:44 PM 10/18/2001, Theresa M Regan wrote:
>Hi Lynne,
>
>yes... just for clarity... We sent several ascii, text files while
>testing. They left the respective servers as "text"; therefore, I would
>expect them to arrive on the server as text.
>
>We quickly focused in on one "postscript" file which when printed from the
>UNIX line on SF5 and PS1 hangs while "lpr'd" from SF2 and SF6 works. It is
>possible to send the same postscript file from SF5 redirected to an interim
>print server and onto pillage.mit.edu.
>
>Hope this helps... the ascill text files you are seeing were sent as ascii
>text files...
>
>Thanks,
>Theresa
>
>
>
>At 02:02 PM 10/18/2001 -0400, Lynne E. Durland wrote:
> >Theresa and Garry,
> >
> >One thing that struck me as I look at the files in the queue that have been
> >submitted over the last week or so, is the files that were "lpr'd" directly
> >from Unix are coming into the queue as ascii rather than postscript. This
> >is not apparent on the web page, but something I can see when using the gui
> >interface. This concerns me slightly, that ascii files are getting
> >through, but postscript are not. I do agree that it may be a tcp/ip
> >problem, and don't want to muddy the waters, but thought I would at least
> >point out that the files lpr'd were not postscript.
> >
> >Lynne
> >
Lynne E. Durland
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