[Simh] Printer on TOPS-10

Wed Mar 21 08:24:24 EDT 2018

Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES

> On 21 Mar 2018, at 13:19, Timothe Litt <litt at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 21-Mar-18 07:02, Jordi Guillaumes Pons wrote:
>> Some years ago I wrote a note to myself:
>> 
>> - Enable printing:
>> 
>> 1) Create file SYS:LPFORMS:INI with the following content:
>> 
>> NORMAL:ALL/BANNER:01/HEADER:01/LINES:66/WIDTH:132/TRAILER:01
>> 
>> 2) In OPR: SHUTDOWN PRINTER 0
>> 3) In OPR: START PRINTER 0/DEVICE:LPT0 <device:LPT0>
>> 
>> 
>> I don’t remember what problem I was trying to solve, but right now this file exists and printing works. Hope it can help you.
>> 
>> 
>> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
>> jg at jordi.guillaumes.name <mailto:jg at jordi.guillaumes.name>
>> HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES
>> 
>> 
>> 
> LPFORM.INI tells LPTSPL how to process forms (the paper stock on which a job is printed).
> The default form is "Normal".  Form names with the same 4 initial characters use the same stock; no operator intervention is required to change among them. (This is used to allow specifying soft parameters, such as the number of banner pages, per job.)  If a job requires different stock, the operator is notified.

IIRC the problem was the print spooler didn’t got started on boot and a command to tell OPR it had the default form mounted was required to start printing. Defining LPFORMS.INI avoided that problem and the print spooler started automatically. Does it make sense to you?

Blurred memories also tell me there was some alignement test involved. After telling OPR the printer had the form mounted it asked to confirm the form was correctly aligned.

Doh, memory…

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