<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Through some testing, i have confirmed that the resolution of the printing for me was adding the /device:lpt0 switch. Im not sure where to set up the ANF-10 node number as I don’t have networking enabled on my Tops-10 system. I couldn’t see where in MONGEN you enter much about the printers. The only question I can see is <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Include UNIBUS/LP20 printers (NO,YES,PROMPT): y</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Mar 2018, at 14:33, Timothe Litt <<a href="mailto:litt@ieee.org" class="">litt@ieee.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">You should not need the /Device. There may be an issue if you
haven't assigned a non-zero ANF-10 node number to the machine - I
vaguely remember a bug with that. You can change the START
PRINTER command in SYSTEM.CMD if necessary. But it's better to
assign a node number.<br class="">
</p><p class="">Note that the LP64 RAM is upper-case only. (It will fold
lowercase to uppercase.) If you expect (upper and) lower case
output, use LP96.RAM. LPTSPL will make the right choice if you
MONGEN the printer correctly, as will any application that asks
for the printer type (or uses the LL pseudo-device).<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21-Mar-18 10:24, Quentin North
wrote:<br class="">
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Having fixed the LPFORMS, SYSTEM.CMD and SYSJOB.INI, and enable
lp20 in simh, I still couldn’t get it to work until I did the
shutdown and startup as below. Now it prints. Hurrah!
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:09 Printer 0 --
Not available right now --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class="">
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">OPR>shutdown printer 0</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">OPR> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:14 Printer 0 --
Shutdown --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">OPR>start printer
0/<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="device:lpt0">device:lpt0</a></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">OPR> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:27 Printer 0 --
Startup Scheduled --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">OPR> </span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:27 Printer 0 --
Started --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class="">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:28 Printer 0 --
VFU error --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class=""> Reloading RAM
and VFU</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class="">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:28 Printer 0 --
Loading RAM with 'LP64' --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class="">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:28 Printer 0 --
Loading VFU with 'NORMAL' --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class="">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">14:18:28 <1> Printer
0 -- Align Forms and Put Online --</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class=""> Type 'RESPOND
<number> PROCEED' when ready</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class="">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;
font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures:
no-common-ligatures" class="">OPR>respond 1 proceed</span></div>
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07:02, Jordi Guillaumes Pons wrote:<br class="">
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Some years ago I wrote a note to myself:
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<div class="">1) Create file SYS:LPFORMS:INI
with the following content:</div>
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<div class="">2) In OPR: SHUTDOWN PRINTER 0</div>
<div class="">3) In OPR: START PRINTER 0/<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="device:LPT0" moz-do-not-send="true">DEVICE:LPT0</a></div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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LPFORM.INI tells LPTSPL how to process forms
(the paper stock on which a job is printed).<br class="">
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.<br class="">
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<div class="">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?</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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Not exactly. The default form is NORMAL. The printer
is started by OPR; as long as INITIA runs, it will start
OPR, which will take SYSTEM.CMD. SYSTEM.CMD is what
configures the galactic components.<br class="">
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LPTSPL is started by QUASAR whenever it's needed - that
is, a stream is started and there's a job in the queue
(or has been recently). QUASAR maintains the printer
state, so LPTSPL doesn't have to stick around when
idle. It's possible that LPTSPL prompts for a form if
LPFORM.INI doesn't exist - I believe there's a default
LPFORM.INI on the distribution tapes, and I don't recall
running without one in a VERY long time :-)<br class="">
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Alignment is invoked when the mounted stock changes and
/ALIGN is specified in LPFORM.INI; it's used to match
the VFU to the paper - e.g., when printing labels, or
pre-printed forms (e.g. invoices, checks, greenbar). <br class="">
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It is likely that that without LPFORM.INI, LPTSPL
conservatively asks for alignment. As I said, it's a
good idea to have one.<br class="">
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However, the OP wasn't getting that far - the printer
status shown is "not available", indicating that the
stream is assigned to a device that doesn't exist or is
assigned to another job. The most likely cause is
failing to enable it in SimH.<br class="">
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I'm not inclined to read the code to refresh my memory
of what happens without LPFORM.INI - having one is a
good idea, and I don't think it relates to the OP's
issue.<br class="">
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