Hi all,

For some unknown reason I do not have the original posting on our
news servers ...

What Wesley describes sounds like the problem that we have fixed with
MPELX39, which is included in 6.5 PP1 and upper. Another indication
would be that you are getting console messages on the console stating
that the spooler detected a PowerFail condition and therefore retries
the operation.
I would however always suggest to check that the patch was really
installed,
it has certainly happened in the past that some patches in a Powerpatch
bundle do not qualify during installation, and this may not have been
noticed.

> Hi Wesley :)
>     This sounds similar to some of the weirdities we are seeing with
> printers and spoolers under MPE/iX 6.5pp2 (our spooler goes south
> occasionally when a Forms statement is generated and nothing will start the
> spooler again for at least a half hour then starts up fine!)

To me this does not sound like Wesley's problem.
In fact it sounds like one that has not been reported to us in the
expert center or in the lab.
If you can duplicate it, I suggest you get in touch with the
Response Center, asking them to tell you how to produce a network
spooler
trace (and possibly a network trace) covering the period of time and
commands, and work with my colleagues and me in WTEC to analyse this.

That assumes you are having a problem with a network spooled printer
and not a DTC serially connected one, which is not my area of
expertise, I am afraid, but I think it would still be worthwile
to report it to the RC and check with them if your system is current
with regards to terminal IO (DTS) patches.

>    Donna G. mentioned that there might be some spooler patches from 6.0 that
> didn't make it into 6.5 but I haven't had a chance to check yet... this
> could be more evidence of this?

No, we are having all the same patches/fixes for the network spooler
available in parallel on 6.0 , 6.5 and 7.0 ; only the currently newest
patch might be available a bit sooner on some OS release, depending
on the 'demand'.

HTH,
Goetz.

>
> Art "just a thot.... not that I have many hehe" Bahrs
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wesley Setree" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 8:55 AM
> Subject: [HP3000-L] printing multiple copies on a network printer
>
> > I wonder if anyone else is having this problem... we send an HP report to
> a
> > network printer and it appears to get in an endless loop because it keeps
> > printing until the paper supply is exhausted. The spoolfile shows only 1
> copy
> > and the application software (MM and PM) only shows 1 copy. Usually this
> happens
> > randomly and goes away as quickly as it arrives. The only way to clear the
> loop
> > is to do a combination of stopspool and abortio. When the printer is
> available I
> > then delete the spoolfile and start the spooler again. However, I now have
> two
> > printers at two locations (different plants in different states) where
> every HP
> > report is printing multiple copies and it will not go away. I told the
> users to
> > only keep a small amount of paper in the tray to reduce the amount of
> waste.
> > All other non-HP reports are fine. Could this be a glitch in the O/S? We
> are on
> > 6.5 pp2.  TIA

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