From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX"  4-AUG-1992 23:41:33.46
To:	info-vax@kl.sri.com
CC:	
Subj:	Re: HP Paintjet

In article <9207311758.AA10263@genrad.com>, dongray@cdclu1.genrad.com (Derek Dongray) writes...
>You couldn't let the rest of us in on the secret incantation needed please?
>I tried every combination I could think of a few months back and eventually
>gave up and hooked it up to PC!
> 
>Specifically what are the DECserver port settings and VMS terminal/queue
>settings needed to persuade it not to dump garbage in the middle of graphic
>images?

Derek, and anyone else interested, here is what we have our HP Paintjet set 
up to be on our cluster.  No problems with it in the last nine months or so,
but it took ages for us to get it set up correctly (read a man-month or some
such).


In LAT$SYSTARTUP.COM

  $ LCP CREATE PORT LTA802: /NOLOG
  $ !
  $ ! For HP paint jet plotter
  $ LCP SET PORT LTA802: /APPLICATION /NODE=TSRV08 /PORT=CRPAINT_01 


In COMMON_REMOTE_PRINT.COM

  $ set term lta802: /device=la120/page=0/speed=9600/eight -
       /nohang/nobroad/noecho/notab/nowrap/noauto/block/nomodem/pasthru/perm
  $
  $ ! Set the protection on the devices so that only the symbiont can access
  $ ! them.
  $ set protection=(s:rwlp,o,g,w) /device lta802:
  $ 
  $ ! Set the devices spooled.
  $ set device lta802: /spooled=(crpaint$plot,sys$sysdevice:)


On the DECserver

  TSM_SVR_TSRV08> sho port 4 char


  Port 4: (Remote)                       Server: TSRV08

  Character Size:            8           Input Speed:        9600
  Flow Control:            XON           Output Speed:       9600
  Parity:                 None           Modem Control:  Disabled

  Access:               Remote           Local Switch:       None
  Backwards Switch:       None           Name:         CRPAINT_01
  Break:              Disabled           Session Limit:         4
  Forwards Switch:        None           Type:               Hard

  Preferred Service: None

  Authorized Groups:   0
  (Current)  Groups:   0

  Enabled Characteristics:

  Input Flow Control,  Loss Notification,  Message Codes,
  Output Flow Control,  Queuing,  Verification


We used to constantly run into stalling problems - a node wouldn't "finish"
sending stuff, so queues would stall from other nodes, but it would continue
to work from the original.  This is all fixed with the above.  We print files
that are generated on the VAX and uploaded from PCs.


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