From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Pathworks for Mac printing problem.
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:23:49 +1100
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

Hi,
We're playing with providing printing support to our 4 platforms
(Mainframe, Vax/VMS, PC and Mac) via Pathworks for Macintosh 1.1
setup print queues.  Now this seems to work reasonably well when
talking to Appletalk printers however the MSAP$SYMBIONT refuses
to talk to a LAT connected printer when the LTA device is spooled.

It's a Gestetner GLP-800 Scout Postscript printer hooked off a
terminal server.  The LTA port itself works fine and we have no
problems with copying files to the port and such (except it's
*slow*), the problem comes when we define the MSA printer
service.  Pathworks creates the VMS queue with the MSAP$SYMBIONT
print symbiont ok and then we start the service.  Either printing
from VMS using the default LTR_12 form or printing from a Mac (ie
just putting something into the queue) results in an error
message; |
         V

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  23-DEC-1992 17:02:09.31  %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on CNB11W
%MSAP-E-CONNFAIL, connect failed to printer LTA2:
-ATK-E-NBP_NAMNOTFOU, Name was not found

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The queue looks like this;

$ sh queu ss_test/all/full
Printer queue SS_TEST, stalled, device unavailable, on CNB11W::"LTA2:",
mounted form LTR_12 (stock=PLAIN_PAPER)
  /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=LTR_12 (stock=PLAIN_PAPER))
  /LIBRARY=MSAP$DEVCTL /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=MSAP$SYMBIONT
  /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,W:W)

  Entry  Jobname         Username     Blocks  Status
  -----  -------         --------     ------  ------
      8  LOGIN           MAKINC            3  Stalled
         Submitted 23-DEC-1992 17:01 /FORM=LTR_12 (stock=PLAIN_PAPER)
         /PRIORITY=100
         File: _$1$DKA300:[SS.MAKINC]LOGIN.COM;26 (printing)

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The Pathworks for Macintosh printer service looks like this;

MSA$MANAGER> sh pr "SS Test" /full

Print service "SS Test" for queue SS_TEST
    Process MSAP$RCVR1
    /DESTINATION="LTA2:"
    /SETUP=(MSAP$APPLEDICT71) /FONTS=MSAP$FONTLIST_APPLE35.TXT
    /DEFAULT=(FORM=LTR_12)

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The device looks like this;

LATCP;

Local Port Name:   _LTA2:            Local Port Type: Application (Queued)
Local Port State:  Inactive
Connected Link:

 Target Port Name:     PORT_16          Actual Port Name:
 Target Node Name:     AAB1N1           Actual Node Name:
 Target Service Name:                   Actual Service Name:

show dev;
$ sh dev lta2:/full

Terminal LTA2:, device type unknown, is online, record-oriented device, carriage
    control, device is spooled through an intermediate device.

    Error count                    0    Operations completed                  4
    Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC                      [SYSTEM]
    Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot                S:RWLP,O:,G:,W:
    Reference count                0    Default buffer size                 511



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The terminal setup looks like this;

Terminal: _LTA2:      Device_Type: Unknown       Owner: No Owner

   Input:   9600      LFfill:  0      Width: 511      Parity: None
   Output:  9600      CRfill:  0      Page:   66

Terminal Characteristics:
   Interactive        Echo               Type_ahead         No Escape
   No Hostsync        TTsync             Lowercase          No Tab
   Wrap               Scope              No Remote          No Eightbit
   No Broadcast       No Readsync        No Form            Fulldup
   No Modem           No Local_echo      No Autobaud        Hangup
   No Brdcstmbx       No DMA             No Altypeahd       Set_speed
   No Commsync        Line Editing       Overstrike editing No Fallback
   No Dialup          No Secure server   No Disconnect      No Pasthru
   No Syspassword     No SIXEL Graphics  No Soft Characters No Printer Port
   Numeric Keypad     No ANSI_CRT        No Regis           No Block_mode
   No Advanced_video  No Edit_mode       No DEC_CRT         No DEC_CRT2
   No DEC_CRT3        No DEC_CRT4        VMS Style Input

Device spooled to _CNB11W$DKA0:

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As you can see it looks like an AppleTalk error but it's not,
really.  I placed a call with Digital (before I found out it was
the spooled/nospooled option) and they didn't have an answer
either.

Setting the device nospooled (set dev lta2: /nospooled) fixes it
directly however we want to spool the device to that direct
copies from other nodes go via the printer queue.  We need that
to allow our Interlink Hot-Writer setup to work properly from the
mainframe.

Has anyone seen this problem before?  Did you solve it?

Carl.
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