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The Question is: I have a Alpha Workstation 255 running open vms 7.0. I also have a Dec Postscript Printer Laser Plus 2300 (I think). It is hooked up via a serial cable to opa1: using real Dec cables. DCPS will not print postscript files of more than 6 pages. BUT, I can copy a postscript file of any length to the opa1: port, and it works. I have slowed the speed down to 4800 baud at the printer, and spent endless hours fussing around to no avail. I might also note that I got a modem to work with opa0: after 1.5 years of fussing around. The manual is plainly incorrect about opa1: being modem capable. But that's not at issue. Just getting the printer working is. I would like to be able to write latex postscript files with imbedded graphs etc., but need DCPS to work. I think I have version 1.3 up. The documentation inside the DCL is awful, and systems managers at the University of Pittsburgh say DCPS parameters are too poorly documented. So, any ideas? (Other than paying $250/hour to some folks in Colorado. Thanks. Bob Strauss Professor of Economics and Public Policy The Answer is : The Wizard would move to DCPS V1.5 and to OpenVMS V7.1, or later. Please contact the Compaq customer support center directly. You will need to identify the actual version of DCPS, the specific printer, the printer configuration, the specific cabling in use, and various other attributes. You will need to indicate what happens when more than six pages are printed -- is this a serial line flow-control problem (often garbage or dropped characters ensue, etc), or are there error message(s), or does the printing merely stop? You will also want to indicate if large text files copied directly to the printer -- without spooling, queues, or DCPS involved -- operate as expected. "Inside the DCL"? As in "online help"? If so, please acquire access to the product documentation -- the HELP text is certainly not intended as a replacement for access to the necessary product documentation. -- Console ports may or may not have modem control. This does not mean that the modems cannot be made to work, merely that certain capabilities of "normal" modem behaviour may be unavailable. Please see the many other discussions of modems here in Ask The Wizard.
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