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From: eleckc@nuscc.nus.sg (Chua Kee Chaing (Dr))
Subject: asia-pacific engineering journal - call for papers
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:25:05 GMT

ASIA-PACIFIC ENGINEERING JOURNAL PART A - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

December 1993 Issue on Communications Engineering

CALL FOR PAPERS
---------------

The Asia-Pacific Engineering Journal (APEJ) provides within the rapidly
changing Asia-Pacific region a unique source of information on current
international research activities and trends in technology. It aims to
keep its readers fully briefed with major papers, reports and reviews on
state-of-the-art technologies and products. The journal is published in
separate parts that cover the disciplines of Electrical, Mechanical,
Civil, Chemical and Industrial Engineering. Part A is devoted to
Electrical Engineering, and covers the four main areas of Communications
Engineering, Computer Engineering, Control and Automation, and
Microelectronics.

The December 1993 issue of Part A of the APEJ is devoted to Communications
Engineering. The issue will be a special issue concentrating on the field
of High-Speed Networking, and original contributions in all aspects of
this field of research are now solicited. In particular, relevant topics
of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Broadband ISDN and ATM networks
* Gigabit/s networking
* Lightwave networks
* High-speed transport protocols
* Management of high-speed networks
* Flow and congestion control in high-speed networks

Prospective authors are requested to submit four (4) copies of their
manuscripts, written in English, and including a 100-word abstract, to the
following by 1 April 1993.

	Dr. Kee C. Chua
	Department of Electrical Engineering
	National University of Singapore
	10 Kent Ridge Crescent
	Singapore 0511
	Fax.: +65 777 3117
	Email.: eleckc@nuscc.nus.sg
From: bobml@msd.measurex.com (Bob LaGesse)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.wintcp
Subject: icmp_input() Error Message
Keywords: WIN/TCP
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:07:04 GMT
Organization: Measurex/MSD, Cincinnati, OH 45240, USA

I know that this newsgroup is supposed to be for VMS but I believe that
these two problems may be platform independent.
I'm running WIN/TCP Release 4.1.3 under Interactive UNIX Version 2.0.2.
The ethernet cards which we're using are the Western Digital WD8013EP and
the 3Com 3C503-16; the problems described below happen on both cards.

1)  We keep getting the following message on all of our UNIX PCs running
    WIN/TCP anywhere from 5 to 30 times a day:

    [-1]: icmp_input() default: badtype 10, code 0
		- OR -
    [4294967295]: icmp_input() default: badtype 10, code 0

    These just stared appearing within the last month.  We've been running this
    version of WIN/TCP for 6 months prior without this error.  Can anyone
    give more details as to what this message really means?  I do know that it
    is generated from within the "ip(7)" device driver.
 
2)  I've been trying to execute the following with no success:

    struct icmpstat is;
    ioctl(fd, IPIOC_GETICMPSTAT, &is);

    It always fails with errno=EINVAL.  I've tried opening fd
    with "open("/dev/ip", O_RDWR, 0)" and "socket(AF_INET, ..., 0)"
    with the same negative results.  What gives here?

Any help, pointers, tips, etc, would be greatly appreciated.

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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.wintcp
From: usama@twg.com (Usama Jamil Anqud)
Subject: Re: icmp_input() Error Message
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:13:11 GMT

>From: bobml@msd.measurex.com (Bob LaGesse)
>Subject: icmp_input() Error Message
>Keywords: WIN/TCP
>Date: 6 Jan 93 22:07:04 GMT
>Organization: Measurex/MSD, Cincinnati, OH 45240, USA
>Lines: 34
>Nntp-Posting-Host: mxmsd.msd.measurex.com
>
>I know that this newsgroup is supposed to be for VMS but I believe that
>these two problems may be platform independent.
>I'm running WIN/TCP Release 4.1.3 under Interactive UNIX Version 2.0.2.
>The ethernet cards which we're using are the Western Digital WD8013EP and
>the 3Com 3C503-16; the problems described below happen on both cards.
>
>1)  We keep getting the following message on all of our UNIX PCs running
>    WIN/TCP anywhere from 5 to 30 times a day:
>
>    [-1]: icmp_input() default: badtype 10, code 0
>                - OR -
>    [4294967295]: icmp_input() default: badtype 10, code 0
>
>    These just stared appearing within the last month.  We've been running this
>    version of WIN/TCP for 6 months prior without this error.  Can anyone
>    give more details as to what this message really means?  I do know that it
>    is generated from within the "ip(7)" device driver.
>
>2)  I've been trying to execute the following with no success:
>
>    struct icmpstat is;
>    ioctl(fd, IPIOC_GETICMPSTAT, &is);
>
>    It always fails with errno=EINVAL.  I've tried opening fd
>    with "open("/dev/ip", O_RDWR, 0)" and "socket(AF_INET, ..., 0)"
>    with the same negative results.  What gives here?
>
>Any help, pointers, tips, etc, would be greatly appreciated.
>                                                                                
Please direct any questions/bugs to our Support Department.  This is
necessary so that we can keep track of problems reported by our 
customers.

You can either send e-mail to support@twg.com, or call our Support
Department at (415) 962-7140.  They will be glad to assist you.

- Usama


Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.wintcp
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Telnet problem
From: "Tim McKee, 803-366-2620" <mckeetr@cvse.cortex.prospect.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 13:50:02 EST
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu

Has anyone encountered a situation where CMU Telnet
freezes output until you press a key (any transmiting
key)?

I am communicating between 2 CMUIP served VAXes.  I can
enter a DIR command and the last few entries may or may
not come up until I press another key!

Any ideas?

tim

BTW:  Due to other requirements, I have a large type-
ahead buffer defined on all the machines.
================================================================================
Timothy R. McKee                        |  Senior Consultant - VAX/VMS Internals
Cortex Corp. - SouthEast Field Office   |       mckeetr@cvse.cortex.prospect.com
Phone: (803) 366-2620                   |                    FAX: (803) 366-6517
================================================================================
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Re: Telnet problem
From: Lord Wodehouse <w0400@ggr.co.uk>
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:05:00 GMT
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
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Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Via: uk.co.ggr; Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:18:38 +0000

This is the imfamous TELNET pause problem Software 6.6-5A fixes this,
but it is NOT on general release. Henry Miller has the saveset for this.
He may be willing to provide this via FTP.


Lord John - The Programming Peer        mail - w0400@ggr.co.uk
                                        tlx  - 8951942 GLXPRI G
Have network - will mail!               fax  - +44 81 423 4070
From: gordon@rahul.net (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Re: Telnet problem
Date: 9 Jan 93 07:37:20 GMT
Organization: a2i network

In article <0096641B.1783B300.2842@cvse.cortex.prospect.com> CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
>Has anyone encountered a situation where CMU Telnet
>freezes output until you press a key (any transmiting
>key)?
>
      I have had the same symptoms ever since we upgraded to VMS 5.5 (?)
 and re-installed the CMU package.  We use telnet between a VAX/VMS and
 a SunOS 4.1.1 Spark.
      Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
  -gordon@kpy.com
-- 
Gordon Vickers <gordon@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Re:  Server example in C???
From: <miller@tgv.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:34:21 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Mail-System-Version: <MultiNet-MM(330)+TOPSLIB(156)@TGV.COM>


>Could someone send me a simple C example for a server using the CMU/Tek
>calls.  The documentation I have with this version (6.5) indicates
>that there is a C example, but I've yet to find it, and I'm not
>that much of a Blis programmer.

My fault.  I had a C example put I forgot to put in the manual.
Unfortunately I done have that code any more.

All you need to do is assign a channel to the ip0: device and
then issue $QIOs.  The BLISS macros you see in the manual
correspond to the following $QIO functions:

#define TCP$OPEN        IO$_CREATE
#define TCP$CLOSE       IO$_DELETE
#define TCP$SEND        IO$_WRITEVBLK
#define TCP$RECEIVE     IO$_READVBLK
#define TCP$ABORT       IO$_DEACCESS
#define TCP$STATUS      IO$_ACPCONTROL
#define TCP$INFO        IO$_MODIFY

The P1 through P6 parameters remain as described in the manual.

Again, I apologize for the general lack of clarity in the programming
chapter.  The entire manual was put together in only one week.  Please
feel free to send me any questions about programming.  I still remember
a little bit...

-bruce
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Mirror site for CMU-OpenVMS/IP
From: "John F. Sandhoff" <syssand@ccvax.ccs.csus.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:34:25 PST
Reply-To: sandhoff@csus.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Resent-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 15:34:25 PST
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Resent-Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu


Since we are quite fond of the former CMU/Tek package, still rely on it
for some of our machines, and need to keep a copy around anyway, we have
placed a mirror copy of the release files on our Anonymous-FTP server.
CMU initially announced that these files would only be available from their
server (drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu) until 15-Jan-1993. The intent is that
providing this mirror site will help maintain the availability of this
software.

PLEASE NOTE that we are doing this as a convenience to the network community -
CSU Sacramento does *not* offer any form of support or assistance with the
product so please do not ask! (Though we'll be happy to distribute patches
and updates if/when they become available from Henry, John and other
dedicated [and slightly eccentric :-)] persons).

    John F. Sandhoff, University Network Support
      California State University, Sacramento - USA
        sandhoff@csus.edu

Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
From: mehdizadeh@asl.slb.com
Subject: Name server on a VAX 4000-300?!?
Reply-To: mehdizadeh@asl.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:43:38 GMT

Hello fellow CMU users:

I was wondering if all you gurus out their with your infinte knowledge
can tell me how to setup a name server on a VAX 4000-300 running
VMS 5.5 using CMU/TEK 6.6-5?  Our main name server is a remote sight.
But I would like to setup up a name server that would keep the information
of our local hosts and send a copy to our main domain name server.
Is such a thing possible?  Would I place our forward and reverse table 
in this name server?  

I look forward to any help/suggestion/comment.

Thanks for your input. 

Yahya Mehdizadeh

Email Addr: Mehdizadeh@asl.sinet.slb.com
From: shuford@cs.utk.edu (Richard Shuford)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Re: Telnet problem
Followup-To: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Date: 11 Jan 1993 16:33:05 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville--Dept. of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Expires: 14 Feb 1993 22:24:26 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: carlsberg.cs.utk.edu
Summary: is this not the classic "telnet pause" behavior?
Keywords: CMU-OpenFriendlyDontWorryBeHappyVMS-IP, TCP/IP, Telnet, Nagle

In article <0096641B.1783B300.2842@cvse.cortex.prospect.com>
  Tim McKee, writes, seemingly from South Carolina:
>
> Has anyone encountered a situation where CMU Telnet
> freezes output until you press a key (any transmiting key)?

Is this not the usual "modus operandi" of the "Telnet Pause" bug?
I seem to recall that the problem stems from the bit of code that
implements the particular fine-tuning of the TCP protocol called
the "Nagle Heuristic".

If so, the fix was advertised here last month:

| Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
| Subject: RE: TELNET pause
| Message-ID: <921209204912.20a04bd3@SACUSR.MP.USBR.GOV>
| From: <henrym@sacusr.mp.usbr.gov>
| Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 20:49:12 -0800 (PST)
| Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
| 
| 
| 	To get the new version, use ANONYMOUS FTP to either SACUSR.MP.USBR.GOV
| or SACWMS.MP.USBR.GOV.  In directory [.TEKIP] are the files TEKIP0665A.SAVE
| and TEKIP0665A.SAVE_Z.  The latter is an LZCOMP'ed version of the former.
| This is not at installation kit, but just a BACKUP saveset and the structure
| of the saveset should make it obvious where the files go under
| CMUTEK_SYSROOT:
| 
| 	Due to the new IP driver and PTY drivers, you will have to reboot the
| system.  The IPACP and drivers are co-dependant on each other, so you have
| to load them all up and reboot.  Before you reboot, modify your
| INTERNET.CONFIG file to use the 'ETHER' driver instead of 'XEDRV'.  There
| are still some problems with the external driver, but the internal driver
| works OK.
| 
| 	If you are running an older version of the code, you will have to make
| the following couple of changes in your IP_STARTUP.COM:
| 
| $DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC	INET$PTY	PNA:
| $DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXEC	INET$PTY_TERM	TZ
| 
| 	If your version is still using the old TW and PZ drivers, then change
| the PZ  references to PN and TW to TZ.
| 
| -HWM
| ----------
| Henry W. Miller
| Assistant Systems and Network Manager
| U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
| Mid Pacific Region
| 2800 Cottage Way MP1100
| Sacramento, CA 95825
| (916) 978-5108 / FTS - Same as commercial
| Inet:	"henrym@sacwms.mp.usbr.gov"
| BITNET:	"hmiller@scu"

(BTW, it would still make sense to change the name of this software to
"DECUS TCP/IP".)

-- 
 ...Richard S. Shuford  |"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and
 ...shuford@cs.utk.edu  | he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty.
 ...Info-Stratus Coord. | Proverbs 22:16  NIV
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: IPACP-5A
From: Lawrence Newton <z999012@mdacc.mda.uth.tmc.edu>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 09:28:30 CST
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu


    I obtained the -5A modules from sacusr and rummaged through the .exe's.
I found what looks like a reference to CMUTEK_ROOT in roughly the same area
that -5 references CMUIP_ROOT. Is this because the 5A mods were built before
the TEK references were removed? Do I have a good copy of the -5A mods?
Is this the reason that IP_STARTUP defines CMUTEK_ROOT?

    The message I read, says to change XEDRV to ETHER in the config file.
Is this a name change to the entry or does it actually change the
configuration in some way?

   _________________________________________________________________________
   Lawrence Newton                     | Z999012@mdacc.mda.uth.tmc.edu
   Mail Box 167                        | LNEWT@mdacc.mda.uth.tmc.edu
   University of Texas                 | BITNET Z999012@UTMDAH Z999012@UTHVM1
   M.D. Anderson Cancer Center         | THENET   MDACC::Z999012
   1515 Holcombe Houston, Texas 77030  | Voice   (713) 792-6344
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: LPR From PC's
From: CHRIS STRICKLAND <stricklandc@h8700a.boeing.com>
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:10:00 CST
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu

I had a similar problem.  On your PC use lpr -C default, along with the
rest of your line.  Otherwise the printform become something else like
your systems name.
From: david@ittpub.nl (David P. Morgan)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Wollongong emulation
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:07:09 WET+0100
Organization: ITT Publitec R+D BV, Amsterdam


Can CMU be made to emulate Wollongong ?

I ask because we need to run Ingres over TCP/IP and it only supports
UCX and Wollongong. I'm told that Multinet has a W. emulation mode for
situations like these.

Thanks in advance

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David P. Morgan                        Internet: david@ittpub.nl        |ucannot
ITT Publitec R+D BV                    UUCP:     ...!sun4nl!ittpub!david|readdis
Amsterdam                              PSI:      020412905761212::DAVID |onavt52
From: scott@ais.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: Server example in C???
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:17:41 GMT
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC

Could someone send me a simple C example for a server using the CMU/Tek
calls.  The documentation I have with this version (6.5) indicates
that there is a C example, but I've yet to find it, and I'm not
that much of a Blis programmer.

Thanks in advance.

--Scott Gregory
scott@ais.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: <None>
From: bodoh@dgg.cr.usgs.gov
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:28:53 -0600
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu

Hello,

	We're going to take advantage of the TGV discount - but we are having
trouble locating our license agreement with CMU.  Marc - or anybody at CMU -
can I please get a copy faxed to me at 605-594-6589?  If anyone has a reply,
please send it directly as I am not on this list.  Alternately, does someone
have a number where I can talk to a human at CMU regarding these records?

Thanks...



						Tom Bodoh
						USGS/EROS Data Center
						Sioux Falls, SD
						605-594-6830
						bodoh@dgg.cr.usgs.gov
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: TELNET problems
From: i_leonard@fennel.wt.uwa.edu.au
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:58:05 +0800 (SST)
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"CMU-openvms-ip@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu"

I have recently installed CMU-Open VMS/IP on a MicroVAX 3300 running VMS
V5.4-3 and I am having problems with TELNET.  Whenever I TELNET to the uVAX
and run a normal session it is OK.  If I abort the TELNET session at the
username prompt by pressing CONTROL-Z the User authorization failure and
timeout period expired messages don't appear until I press some
keys.  THe IP-ACP process then starts hogging the CPU for abour a minute.

I thought this may be due to XONN/XOFF problems so I tried those qualifiers
but it didn't help.  I also tried a telnet server process as well as the
server process simply forking a server but again, that didn't help.

I have only just sent my request to join this group (and as yet don't know
what sort of questions are going back and forth) so please mail any
responses to me whilst I get myself sorted out.

Thanks
Ian Leonard - i
i_leonard@fennel.wt.uwa.edu.au
Denver Technology, Perth, Western Australia.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek
Subject: <None>
From: "edward King, Physics Dept. Univ of Tasmania"
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 09:01 EST
Reply-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <@andrew.cmu.edu:CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu@mccall.com>
Errors-To: CMU-OpenVMS-IP-Request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
X-Vms-To: IN%"cmu-openvms-ip@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu"
X-Vms-Cc: KING

Hello,
	I have been trying to get the LPR software to go in one of our
clusters so that we can print files on our vax laser printer queue from
IBM PC's that run the NCSA telnet et al package. The problem is that jobs
appear to be submitted to the queue by LPR with the wrong form, and hence
don't get printed. Below is an example of a DCL "printed" job, and a PC
"lpr'd" job as they appear in the que:

$ show queue/full/all laser

Terminal queue LASER, on MPVAX1::LSR0:, mounted form LASER (stock=A4)
    /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FORM=DEFAULT)
    /LIBRARY=LASERCTL Lowercase /OWNER=[1,4] /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,W:W)
    /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE) /SEPARATE=(RESET=(CTRLD))

  Jobname         Username     Entry  Blocks  Status
  -------         --------     -----  ------  ------
  FITSIO          KING           734     360  Printing
    Submitted 15-DEC-1992 00:17 /FORM=LASER (stock=A4) /PRIORITY=100
    File: _MPVAX1$DUA1:[MP$COMMON.FITSIO]FITSIO.PS;2 (printing)

  fitsio.ps       RA323          430     368  Pending (stock type mismatch)
    Submitted 14-DEC-1992 21:23 /FORM=DEFAULT
    /NOTE="RA323 on ra323.phys.utas.edu.au"
    /PARAM=("DATA_TYPE=POSTSCRIPT","","","","",
    "FITSIO.PS","","ra323.phys.utas.edu.au") /PRIORITY=100
    File: _MPVAX1$DUA0:[CMUIP66.SYSMGR]DFA780RA323_PHYS_UTAS_EDU_AU.;1 /DELETE

The DCL command for printing postscript files on the printer from the vax
is simply
          $ PRINT/QUEUE=LASER/FORM=LASER <filename>

I have only one entry in my printcap file

!Local queue LASER
laser "mpvax1.phys.utas.edu.au" "mpvax1.phys.utas.edu.au" mpvax1:: laser define-logicals

I guessed that setting the "default_form" entry in the printcap file to
LASER (as in the DCL print command) should cause jobs to be submitted with
that form but this does not appear to be the case. As far as I can see
LPR_STARTUP.COM only uses the "default_form" from the printcap file if it
is initializing the queue. My question is thus - does anybody know what
is wrong here, or has anybody seen this before? Can anyone tell me which
part of the manual, or even which manual, I should read to solve this?
Have I missed something simple, or am I trying to do the impossible?

Thanks for any help or suggestions you can offer,

Edward King.

Internet: king@physvax.phys.utas.edu.au


BTW software versions (even though I don't think it matters too much?):
                 - VMS 5.4-1
                 - CMU-OpenVMS/IP 6.6-5 (retrieved from DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU)
                   + the executables in the save set TEKIP0665A.SAVE from
                     SACWMS.MP.USBR.GOV
                 - NCSA telnet V2.3.05