lpr and atprint failure with QMS appletalk

[Dan Flamm]

Dear Net,

I am having the same problem Craig Ruff reported in his April 25 posting
to this comp.unix.aux.  Apparently Craig has not solved it yet, so we both
would appreciate some help from Apple.

In addition, I chased down the workings of A/UX lpr, and tried to print
to the QMS over Appletalk using atprint(1) directly.  Atprint reports
the QMS Postscript diagnostic message to the control window, Status: Idle
(paraphrase).  Hence atprint is not sending the file to the QMS.

If we can't get any help form Apple, could we at least get the atprint source
so we can fix it ourselves?  Thanks!

dan flamm

     > From: cruff at ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff)
     > 
     > I have a printing puzzle.  This is my setup:
     > 
     > 	Mac IIsi, A/UX 2.0.1, QMS-PS 410 on localtalk
     > 
     > This is what happens:
     > 
     > 	Printing from		What happens
     > 	-------------		------------
     > 	Mac OS & appls		Works fine
     > 	A/UX, A/UX Finder
     > 	      & Mac appls	Works fine
     > 	A/UX, lpr		Works sporadically
     > 
     > What happens is that I may or may not get any output.  If the output does
     > show up, it may be minutes later.  Note that the printer is chosen,
     > and atstatus shows the correct status.  If I run atprint directly,
     > it also gets the printer status correctly.  If I simultaneously print
     > from a Mac application, atprint sees the printer go busy then idle again.
     > Any clues?  Thanks.
     > 
     > -- 
     > Craig Ruff      	NCAR			cruff at ncar.ucar.edu
     > (303) 497-1211  	P.O. Box 3000
     > 			Boulder, CO  80307