Windows 10 SCO Filepro issue (long post)

[Rod Caddy]

On 10/31/2018 11:59 PM, Brian White wrote:
> Ok there are a few things at first glance:
>
> * PFPT is what's causing the H hardcopy to print via passthrough. That 
> also applies to any other filepro printing that doesn't specify some 
> destination or override the default. (Same as what I said in that 
> other email I just happened to send about the same time you must have 
> been gathering this.) As I said in that previous post, you might try 
> installing a different printer driver for the printer, if one is 
> available for win10. Look for one that says pcl5 in it's name. Or try 
> using AnzioWin to take advantage of it's built-in pcl renderer.
>
> * TERM is being hardcoded to scoansi in .profile . This is not good. 
> The terminal is supposed to tell the server what kind of terminal it 
> is, and it does that via the TERM variable. The terminal is supposed 
> to set the TERM variable. By setting TERM in .profile you are 
> essentially lying to the server and all apps, ignoring what the 
> terminal said, and telling the server and all apps that the terminal 
> is always a scoansi terminal, whether it actually is or not.
Not being the one that set this up initially, and since it has worked 
flawlessly until now, I have never changed it.
>
> You should remove the TERM hardcoding from .profile, and look at the 
> terminal emulator config to make sure it is setting TERM to "scoansi". 
> (It might be setting just "ansi", which is... a long story I'm going 
> to skip because this email is already going to be big enough...) This 
> assumes you don't have something like 150 desktops to manually edit 
> their configs.
>
> IF you have more than 10 or 15 desks, AND the terminal emulators on 
> all of them aren't sending "scoansi" after you remove the hardcoding, 
> THEN it makes more sense to edit the two termcap files to match the 
> clients than to edit all the clients to match the two termcap files. 
> Not a huge task, but it would be a huge email to explain about editing 
> termcap entries and alias names and the special gotcha and "long 
> story" wrt sco and the actual sco console and the particular values 
> "scoansi" vs "ansi".
I have modified termcap before, not an issue.  All desks are already set 
to scoansi.
>
> * The default printer in pfconfig is "lp" and the printer named "lp" 
> is printer8. That is where all print jobs would go by default, if you 
> commented out PFPT. Is that lp command line valid? Does that print 
> queue actually work?
Still valid and is where things are being sent as the default.  I have 
commented out PFPT in the .profile, which resolved the issue, but that 
still does not explain why it only fails on Windows 10 PC.
>
> If not, then change pfprinter to one that does. (go in to printer 
> maint in and toggle some other one as default), or edit the printer8 
> line to a command that works.
>
> This should largely clear you up.
>
> --
> bkw
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 6:18 PM Rod Caddy via Filepro-list 
> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com 
> <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
>     On 10/30/2018 10:49 PM, Rod Caddy via Filepro-list wrote:
>     > You do have some things for me to try that I haven't. But yes
>     the first question you asked is  correct. One prints one does not.
>     >
>     > ⁣
>     > Rod Caddy
>     > 817-793-4148 Cell
>     > 1-877-657-1480
>     >
>     > Sent from BlueMail ​
>     >snip
>

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