Re: Help - Weird error with TCP printing & HPT

I had a problem at one client running 3.1 where a certain print job 
would never print to a TCP/IP printer.  It would sit there all day 
trying.   It turned out that the timeout was too low and when I upped 
it, the problem was solved.  This only occurred at above 450 pages on 
a printout.  I didn't get any "parameter 9" error like yours, but I 
wonder if it might be a similar problem being dealt with to 
differently by the newer OS.

Too bad they aren't leaving any of the bread crumbs for you...

Bob Currey
Currey & Assoc
bcurrey@mediaone.net
847-934-5076

> Date:          Tue, 05 Oct 
1999 00:46:43 -0500
> From:          Bob Larkin <blarkin@wt.net>
> To:            MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:       Re: Help - Weird error with TCP printing & HPT
> Reply-to:      MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

> There are NO twinax attached printers. Funny thing, it prints just fine the 
>majority of the time. For
> both my file and all others. Some days the problem will not appear, other 
>days it might pop up three
> or four times.
> 
> This client does have support from IBM, so they are not on a per-call basis. 
>Manager just doesn't want
> to call. believes that since I wrote the program, I should fix it. Of couse, 
>if they would set
> SAVE(*YES) on the spool file that caused the problem, I might have a clue to 
>go on, but so far they
> haven't been able to find the time to do that.
> 
> Bob
> 
> "Art Tostaine, Jr." wrote:
> 
> > Do you have an "old fashioned" twinax printer there?  If it prints on 
>another printer fine, your
> > program is in the clear.
> >
> > That doesn't mean that you couldn't change your program to make it work.  
>Like removing the
> > underline deal.
> >
> > All of those programs in your joblog that begin with "Q" are IBM's.  Why 
>can't you call?  You guys
> > pay per call (like me)?
> >
> > Art Tostaine, Jr.
> > CCA, Inc.
> > Jackson, NJ 08527
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Bob Larkin
> > Sent: Sunday, October 03, 1999 11:34 PM
> > To: Midrange-L Mailing List
> > Subject: Help - Weird error with TCP printing & HPT
> >
> > OK folks,
> > I've got one that has me stumped. Printing to a remote writer through
> > TCP, the printer appears to be printing fine. After a variety of print
> > files are printed, an error occurs on the Host Print Transform of a
> > spool file, and the spool file is placed on hold. At this point, any
> > spool file in the output queue is placed on hold. The only way to
> > correct the problem is to end the writer and restart it. At this point,
> > ALL of the files will print, including the one that caused the problem
> > (I think it is the one causing the problem) I have only seen joblogs of
> > the problem, and each time it is the same spool file, but that may be
> > misleading, because almost all of the printing for that printer is this
> > one particular spool file.
> >
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