GOOD NEWS!

UN-NUMBERING resolved the Spooler Problem out in China!

It was more of a delayed communications issue as I had
no access to fix it myself.

Disagreements:

I've been using a 128 character width NPCONFIG file for years.
NOT A PROBLEM! Comes up nice in QUAD on a 132 character wide
screen (one-line, one-LDEV* or at the most, two.)  It makes a
large NPCONFIG file easier to manage.  (It also saves a couple
sectors being aligned with 256 byte sector width [grin].)

* = (same philosophy as one-shot, one-kill)

It is perfectly O.K. to have more that one LDEV to the same
address as long as they are the same physical printer.  Have
also been doing THAT for years too.  [If there were different
PHYSICAL printers on a multiport JetDirect (or Intel) card,
I would concede that.]  For us it is a convenient way to
define a printer format.  If one wants a Landscape format,
print to LDEV A, if one wants a Portrait format, print to
LDEV B!  Same printer, different LDEV.  Hence the environment
files you see in the earlier posts of this NPCONFIG file below,
they are just chock full of Nuclear Goodness and Genome Enhanced,
escape sequences!

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas M. Root [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:18 AM
>To: HP3000 List; Tracy Johnson
>Subject: Re: SPOOLER vs SPOOLER OUT
>
>
>Like other respondents, I suggest that NPCONFIG be kept as an
>unnumbered
>file with a maximum record length of 80.  In addition, the Native Mode
>Spooler Reference Manual says that there should be only one entry per
>line.  I'm not sure if this is an absolute requirement, but it
>certainly
>makes the file more readable.
>
>I think there is also a distinct configuration problem because
>I see a lot
>of duplicate IP addresses but no 'TCP_port_number' entries.
>
>HTH,
>
>Thomas M. Root
>Desert Schools Federal Credit Union
>[log in to unmask]
>
>
>On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:16:18 -0500, Johnson, Tracy
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>As I mentioned yesterday.  I know someone who is having problems
>>with thier Spooled Printers.  I had suspected thier NPCONFIG file
>>is corrupt.  Below is what they get.  After looking at what is
>>cut and pasted from their NPCONFIG file I can only guess is
>>that it because there are either hidden ASCII characters in the
>>file or it is because it has become a Numbered file, or the
>>file is too wide.
>>
>  << snip >>
>
>>/l a
>>    1     # global (setup_file = LJSET.HPENV.SYS)      #
>LaserJet setup
>>file.
>>    2     #  HP "EX+3" boxes use the following ports:
>>    3     #   parallel #1 - 9100
>>    4     #   parallel #2 - 9101
>>    5     #   parallel #3 - 9102
>>    6     #
>>    7     #  Intel boxes use the following ports:
>>    8     #   parallel #2 - 3002
>>    9     #   serial #1   - 2501
>>   10     #
>>   11
>>   12     # 90     (network_address = 198.212.190.   )
>>   13     #########################################################
>>   14     # global change log
>>   15     #########################################################
>>   16     # 03/23/99  TWS   changed resetlp.util.sys to
>>   17     #                 resetlp.hpenv.sys in all.
>>   18     #
>>   19     #########################################################
>>   20     777    (network_address = 172.16.8.60 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   21
>>   22     3009   (network_address = 172.16.8.60 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   23
>>   24     #----------------------
>>   25     #  Engineering
>>   26     #----------------------
>>   27     3011   (network_address = 172.16.8.51 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE SETUP_FILE=NPXXX1.HPENV)
>>   28     3013   (network_address = 172.16.8.51 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE SETUP_FILE=NPXXX3.HPENV)
>>   29     3014   (network_address = 172.16.8.51 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   30     3019   (network_address = 172.16.8.51 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   31
>>   32     3021   (network_address = 172.16.8.52 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE SETUP_FILE=NPXXX1.HPENV)
>>   33     3023   (network_address = 172.16.8.52 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE SETUP_FILE=NPXXX3.HPENV)
>>   34     3024   (network_address = 172.16.8.52 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   35     3028   (network_address = 172.16.8.52 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   36     3029   (network_address = 172.16.8.52 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   37
>>   38     3031   (network_address = 172.16.8.53 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE SETUP_FILE=NPXXX1.HPENV)
>>   39     3033   (network_address = 172.16.8.53 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE SETUP_FILE=NPXXX3.HPENV)
>>   40     3034   (network_address = 172.16.8.53 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   41     3039   (network_address = 172.16.8.53 PJL_SUPPORTED=TRUE
>>JAM_RECOVERY=TRUE)
>>   42
>