Subject: Re: Netatalk and PC printing

From: [email-masked] (D. J. Hagberg)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 11:31:40 -0700

> Excerpt of lpd-errs:
>
> ofpap[11755]: starting
> ofpap[11755]: sending to pap
> %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: ^D ]%%
> %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
> ofpap[11755]: 11756 done

In the entry for the printer in the user's WIN.INI
file you need to put:

ctrld=0

This turns off the control-D characters that Windows
likes to sprinkle throughout the file, and which unix
print spoolers usually barf on.

We've had this problem here with direct connections to 
the printers, not running through papd.  It seems that 
some implementations of postscript, especially the clones
and ghostscript, seem to deal with ctrl-D characters,
while others like our Tektronix Phaser cheerily spit out
"offending command" errors.

			-=- D. J.