About printing onto a printer attached to the printer/auxiliary port on a
remote serial terminal:

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[OLD:  As of 2002-08-15, Rasmussen Software offers some tips on passthrough
printing via its Anzio telnet client:
    http://www.anzio.com/support/whitepapers/printguide.htm]


As of 2009-11-07, try these URLs:

    http://www.anzio.com/support/kb/Anzio_kb/Printing%20with%20Anzio.htm
    http://www.anzio.com/support/kb/Anzio_kb/Printer%20drivers%20in%20Anzio.htm

There is a video explanation:

    http://www.anzio.com/movies/AnzioWinPrinting.html

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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:59:59 -0500
From: Richard S. Shuford <shuford%list.stratagy.com>
Subject: Re: Send ESC sequences to printer attached to terminal

Igor Bujna <kocour_easy%post.cz> wrote:
|
| I have Oki 3390 printer attached to terminal "Dario 10-vgb10".
| I want send ESC-sequences to printer for bar-codes printing.
| I found out that i can use "mc5p" sequences for printing some bytes
| to given printer.  I don't find this sequences on my linux system.
|
| When I write to printer given ESC-sequences for printing bar-codes
| via "Open printer sequence-mc5" and "Close printer sequence-mc4"
| data didn't reach printer in right format.  It prints only bar-code
| numbers instead of bar-code+bar-code numbers.

Igor:

I think you must mean a "Dorio" terminal, not "Dario".  The Dorio
brand was first applied in 1993 by Digital Equipment Corporation to
Value-Added Reseller versions of its VT510 character-cell terminal.
A few years later, DEC sold off its entire video-terminal business
to Boundless Technologies.  The characteristics of the Dorio VGB-10
are still noted on the Boundless anonymous-FTP site:

    ftp://ftp.boundless.com/pub/text/dec/specs/dor10.txt
 
Now, as to your programming problem.  Think of this proverb:

    "There are more modes of failure than modes of success."

Lots of things could be going wrong.  The technology you want is
spread out through operating-system libraries, OS databases, your
application software, the firmware of the Dorio terminal, and the
firmware and setup of the attached printer.

I have no experience with the particular Oki printer model (3390) you
say you have.  However, to produce bar codes, many printer types
use a special bar-code font, with a separate font for each different
type of bar code (UPC-A, Code-39, etc.)  You should read the technical
documentation for this Oki 3390 printer to find out what it needs.
You might need to have your application software explicitly download   
a barcode font to the printer before beginning other operations.

  [brief pause for web search]
 
I found the following web page about an Oki Microline 3391 printer,
which is probably a successor to the 3390...

    http://www.shopoki.co.uk/datasheet/ml3391_spec.htm
 
..and the page describes a 24-pin dot-matrix unit equipped with a  
number of built-in barcode fonts (Code 39, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN 8, EAN 13,
Interleaved 2 of 5, ZIP, and Code 128). So, if the 3390 also had these,
perhaps the solution involves invoking the proper font before sending
the digits. (And switching the font back afterwards.)  Here again, you
must read the documentation to find out what is required.

As to the precise issues you mention above:  the "mc5p" capability is
the "terminfo" way of saying

    "turn the printer on, to print a specified number of bytes"   

where the number of bytes/octets can be up to 256.  (In "termcap"
the "pO" capability is the equivalent.)  Typically, such capabilities
are invoked programmatically via library-function calls to "curses"
or "ncurses" entry points.

The Linux Documentation Project provides information on "Terminfo
and Termcap" in several places, among which is:

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-15.html

You should check to make certain that several things are true:   

  *  that your Dorio terminal actually is able to perform the
     "mc5p" function of passing a counted number of bytes to
     an attached printer

  *  that your TERM environment variable is properly set

  *  that your Linux machine contains a "terminfo" database
     entry which corresponds to the TERM variable you are setting
     (or has a termcap entry to which the library will fall back)
  
  *  that this corresponding terminfo-database entry contains
     a functional control sequence that actually causes the
     "turn the printer on, to print a specified number of bytes"
     functionality to happen
    
Some "termcap" style advice appearing here...

    http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/termcap/termcap_43.html

..contains a sentence of some relevance:

    Most terminals with printers do not support all of `ps',
    `po' and `pO'; any one or two of them may be supported.

The DEC-style terminals with which I am familiar implement only
the non-parameterized capabilities "mc5" and "mc4", like this:
    
    TERMINFO   TERMCAP     CONTROL
    CAPABILITY CAPABILITY  SEQUENCE     MEANING
    ---------- ----------  ---------    ---------------------------  
      mc5        po        ESC [ 5 i    Printer-Controller Mode On 
      mc4        pf        ESC [ 4 i    Printer-Controller Mode Off

While it is possible that the Dorio VBG-10 is able to do what
"mc5p" asks it to do, it may not, so you may have to fall back to
using mc5 and mc4.   You can check the documentation for the VBG-10
or for whatever equivalent model Boundless is currently supporting.

There is also a possible behavioral surprise lurking in all this:
if the "mc5p" command is properly implemented in the curses library
and in the terminal, it has the following property: while 'mc5p' is
in effect, "all text, including 'mc4', is transparently passed to
the printer."  (Which you probably don't want.)

There are numerous other resources about related issues which you
can find, or find pointers to, from web pages I keep at:
  
    http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html

A wonderfully helpful book on all such topics is this:
 
    "termcap and terminfo"
    by John Strang, Linda Mui and Tim O'Reilly
    3rd Edition April 1988  
    270 pages, ISBN: 0-937175-22-6, $29.95 U.S.
    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/term/
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0937175226
    
 ...RSS

-- 
K.L. says to try http://www.celestialseasonings.com/products/herb/r.php
which, however, contains no caffeine.

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Date: 16 Aug 1995 16:31:35 GMT
From: rodn@sundae.triumf.ca (Rod B. Nussbaumer)
Subject: Re: ANSI-attached printer: passing escape codes to


waters (waters@polaris.net) wrote:
>In article <40dvnb$gmm@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
>> rodn@sundae.triumf.ca (Rod Nussbaumer) says:
>>
>> I am working on a simple filter which will prefix the ANSI Esc-[5i
>> sequence to a stdout data stream on a SonOS 4.x box running the TIN
>> newsreader.  A terminal emulator (EWAN ver 1.05 for Windows, in my
>> test case) will then redirect the stream to the printer port.  This
>> much, I have working.  I decided it would be nice if my filter would
>> invoke a compressed print mode on the printer, by issuing the
>> appropriate escape sequences.  It appears that the terminal swallows
>> up any ESC characters in the stream, and they never reach the printer.
>>
>
> Ah -- the ANSI standard hits again.
> The behaviour you mentions (eating Esc sequences) can vary from emulation
> to emulation (I have written a few in my day)

> This gets exciting.
> Often, if you want to write a control character out a port or do some neat
> things with it without the device getting mad, prefix it with an Esc char.
> For example, to send and ETX, use Esc Etx.

> My implementations usually include "back doors" like this, and I know that
> my contemporary wackos in this bsuines do similar things.
>
> Experiment -- your mileage may vary for the better, but this may lock you
> to one device/one software level ....

> Jonathan

Thanks for your reply.  I suspected this was going to be on of those 
grey areas.  :-(  I tried the ESC-char prefix thing, and it didn't work.  
In my case it was the ESC character that was being eaten.  Then I tried a 
different emulator (MS-Kermit v 3.13) and it appears to work in the simple 
case of invoking the compressed print mode using ESCaped ESCapes.  This 
does not surprise me, as I have always found the MS-Kermit emulations to 
be of the best quality.  

I am okay with this, as this is pretty much a personal use thing, and I 
can tailor my habits to suit the quirks of the system.  All I really want 
is an easy way to print to a local printer from tin while reading news.

-- rod.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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 TRIUMF --- University of British Columbia,     Phone: (604)222-7449
 Vancouver, BC, Canada.                           FAX: (604)222-7307
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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Subject: Re: Downloading a file directly from the host's Web-browser
Message-ID: <1995Dec2.223314.68564@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 95 22:33:14 MDT
References: <3DEC95.04190434@meena.cc.uregina.ca>
Organization: Utah State University

In article <3DEC95.04190434@meena.cc.uregina.ca>,
 vogt12@meena.cc.uregina.ca writes:
>
> A few years ago I bought MS-Kermit 3.0 complete with the book "Using MS-DOS
> Kermit", first edition, 1990. I use it to connect with DEC & IBM mainframes and
> I only run DOS 3.3; so that after I created some "take" files with ample defi-
> nitions for DEC VT & IBM 3270 special keys (I still don't know all of 'em!),
> this version of Kermit has always met all my needs. Until now:
>         One of two VT-type Web-browsers on the VMS-running VAX here goes by the
> name of "VTWWW". This is its name as defined in a DCL global symbol. Its real
> name may be something else. Any guesses? That symbol disappeared yesterday, and
> I might find this Web-browser's directory if I know its real name. Unlike Lynx,
> it uses typed numbers instead of the right-arrow key to follow a link. Anyway,
> it has a very convenient feature provided your Kermit is new enough to exploit
> it. (Mine isn't.) It gives you the option of printing via CKermit the current
> file on your PC's printer. You don't have to do anything to make this happen!
> It just happens, and the screen continues to display the host session. Further-
> more, if you escape and issue "SET PRINTER file.nam" to the local Kermit, the
> Web-browser's file will go to a DOS file instead of to PRN.
>         But my 3.0 Kermit lacks the SET PRINTER feature. To get around this, I
> installed a TSR, "VPRINT.COM", that hooks Print BIOS Int 17h to redirect print
> jobs to a disk file. Then with Kermit going, I asked VTWWW to "print" an .html
> to my PC. It worked; the .html appeared on my DOS disk as a text file, spaced
> like the original but with no mark-up stuff in it. So far fine. But when I went
> back and tried to bring down a *binary* .ZIP file this way, the job was termi-
> nated after a few (dozen) characters. The incomplete file that turned up on my
> PC when typed looked as it did when it was displayed by the Web-browser on the
> host.
>         I eliminated VPRINT.COM as the cause of the problem. It definitely can
> handle binary files without modifying them in the smallest way if so requested.
> I also compared the short corrupted binary file received with an intact copy.
> The damage is extensive, but I noticed one thing: the printing Kermits change
> nulls (ASCII 0) into CR/LF's (etc). So I tried an experiment: I set the VAX's
> term to "/DEV=UNKNOWN /NOANSI" and the PC's term type to "NONE". The attempt
> failed exactly as before.
>         Reading a newer version of KERMIT.HLP, I think I know how VTWWW initi-
> ates the output to PRN: by issuing the sequence ESC [ ? i 5 to start printing
> and ESC [ ? i 4 to stop. But these are for line-by-line or text-mode printing.
> For binary-mode printing of all characters, the sequences are ESC [ i 5 and
> ESC i 4. Note the absence of the the "?"
>         Do you agree with me that the VTWWW program on the VAX was not set up
> to issue the second control pair and was not even able perhaps to tell a binary
> file from a text one? Or does the problem lie elsewhere, like in a Kermit quirk
> that can only be solved by upgrading from version 3.0 to 3.14?
>         And what is the real name for the VMS Web-browser whose alias is apt to
> be "VTWWW"? Your answers to these questions will be highly appreciated, and
> when I succeed in solving this problem I'll tell you how I did it with your help
>                                                 Yours truly,    Warren
---------------


	CSI ? i 4/5 is definitely the wrong way of printing binary information.
That is DEC's "controller" printing described below. The proper way is 
"transparent" printing CSI i 4/5, also described below. Controller printing
outputs only what you see on the screen, minus all cursor steering and
other material on the comms line, and thus it is text-only. Transparent
printing is suitable for binary information.

	MSK v3.00 is very long in the tooth and I recommend you upgrade to
the current MSK v3.14. It's available by anonymous ftp to kermit.columbia.edu,
cd kermit/msdos, binary file msvibm.zip is the quick-start kit. Many more
features are present in 3.14.
	Here's the printing detail, from file msvibm.vt.

 CSI Pn i	MC		Printer controls (Media Copy)
			Pn	
			0	Print whole Screen
			4	Exit printer controller (transparent print)
			5	Enter printer controller (transparent print)

Transparent printing sends all output, except the CSI 4 i termination string,
to the printer and not the screen, uses an 8-bit channel if no parity so NUL
and DEL will be seen by the printer and by the termination recognizer code,
and all translation and character set selections are bypassed.

 CSI ? Pn i	MC		DEC Printer controls (Media Copy)
			Pn
			1	Print line containing cursor
			4	Exit autoprint (stop echoing to printer)
			5	Enter autoprint (echo screen chars to printer)

Autoprint prints a final display line only when the cursor is moved off the
line by an autowrap or LF, FF,	or VT (otherwise do not print the line).

	Joe D.


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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: RE: Downloading a file directly from the host's Web-browser
Message-ID: <1995Dec3.140729.68599@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 95 14:07:29 MDT
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In article <3DEC95.19280521@meena.cc.uregina.ca>,
 vogt12@meena.cc.uregina.ca writes:
>
> In yesterday's message, I described the two pairs of DEC VT control sequences
> for sending screen output to a slave printer. I thought at the time that one
> is a text- or "cooked-" mode, the other a binary- or "raw-" mode. Well, this
> is incorrect; at least for authentic DEC dumb terminals it is. How do I know?
> Like
> this: I read DEC's "VT 220 Programmer Pocket Guide", first, 1983. In there I
> found out that "Auto print" (the ESC [ ? 5 i  /  ESC [ ? 4 i pair) prints a 
> line and CR *after* it has echoed on the screen. The "Printer controller"
> mode (the ESC [ 5 i  /  ESC [ 4 i pair) prints characters WITHOUT displaying
> them on the screen. But it is not a binary mode. NUL, XON, XOFF and CSI 5 i 
>  /  CSI 4 i (the eight-bit version of the seven-bit pair just quoted) don't
> get sent! Therefore
> I can't use it to download binary files.
	<omissions>

	You can do yourself a favor by following my suggestion to pickup the
current issue of MSK v3.14 and putting it to the test. Speculating on what
MSK 3.00 does is of academic interest in this epoch.
	Joe D.

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 [Archiver's note: The DEC manual "VT240 Programmer Pocket Guide"
 (EK-VT240-HR-002 p.38) says that printer-controller mode functions as follows:

    CSI 5 i   turns on printer-controller mode.  The terminal
              send received characters to the printer without
              displaying them on the screen.  All characters
              and character sequences, except NUL, XON, XOFF,
              CSI 5 i, and CSI 4 i are sent to the printer.
              The terminal does not insert or delete spaces,
              or provide line delimiters, or select the correct
              printer character set.

    CSI 4 i    turns off printer-controller mode.

conversely, the non-transparent "auto print" mode is invoked by these
private-style controls:

    CSI ? 5 i  auto-print on

    CSI ? 4 i  auto-print off

(As usual, in 7-bit environments, CSI comes out as "Esc [".)

    ...RSS]

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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 02:07:15 GMT
From: jhurwit@netcom.com (Jeffrey Hurwit)
Subject: Re: Local printing of Web-browser links. Here's how:


In article <1995Dec6.152006.68951@cc.usu.edu>, Joe Doupnik wrote:

>	Note that a formal Kermit protocol file transfer is vastly superior
>to the approach of "transparent printing" (aka, send and hope it gets there
>without overruns/losses/whatnot). 

    Without a doubt!  I was never able to get ANSI printing to work
    properly-- even though I had flow control working properly (far as
    I knew), chunks of material were lost in the transmission.  Finally
    I set up Pine and Tin (when I was using those) to pipe the article/
    mail into (C-Kermit 190) 'kermit -s - -a prn'.  Works like a charm.

                                        Jeff

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pcprint.c -- from old MS-Kermit versions -- print from Unix thru terminal port
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

/* pcprint.c -- Print files on a printer which is locally attached to a DEC 
 * VT102, VT200, VT300, or compatible, or to a PC that emulates them (e.g.,
 * IBM PC with Kermit 2.31 or later).
 *
 * Usage:
 *   command | pcprint
 *   pcprint < file
 *   pcprint file(s)
 * and in MM, "set print-filter pcprint", then use MM's "print" command.
 *
 * "pcprint" allows printing of text files and binary files with no parity.
 * To do this, the terminal has to be put in "raw mode", in which none of its
 * other functions work.  Therefore, the terminal is periodically restored to
 * normal so that it can be interrupted with Ctrl-C, do Xon/Xoff, etc.
 *
 * Authors: Christine Gianone and Frank da Cruz, CUCCA, March 14, 1989
 */

/* Preprocessor includes and defines */

#include <stdio.h>			/* Standard i/o */
#include <sgtty.h>			/* Set/Get terminal modes */
#include <signal.h>			/* For keyboard interrupts */
#include <sys/types.h>			/* For stat.h... */
#include <sys/stat.h>			/* For file status queries */
#define BUFL 1000			/* Input buffer length */

/* Global Declarations */

static struct sgttyb old, new;		/* Terminal modes structure */
static struct stat statbuf;		/* File status structure */
int fd;					/* Input file descriptor */
int doexit();				/* Forward declaration of doexit() */

/* Main function */

main(argc,argv) int argc; char *argv[]; {
    int nf;				/* File number from command line. */
    int x;				/* Temporary variable. */

/* Find out the current terminal settings from Unix */

    gtty(1,&old);			/* For restoring tty to how it was. */
    gtty(1,&new);			/* Plus a new copy, */
    new.sg_flags |= RAW;		/* for putting tty in "raw mode" */
					/* to allow 8-bit data output */
					/* with no parity. */

/* Send the ANSI "begin transparent print" sequence, "ESC [ 5 i".  This */
/* makes the terminal send its input to the printer instead of the screen. */

    printf("%c[5i",'\033');		/* Print the escape sequence. */
    fflush(stdout);			/* Make sure it goes out */
					/* before we change tty modes. */

/* Since programs can be halted by users typing Ctrl-C or other keyboard */
/* interrupt characters, we must catch these interrupts in order to restore */
/* the terminal to normal (non-printing, non-raw) mode before exiting. */

    signal(SIGINT,doexit);		/* Control-C */
    signal(SIGQUIT,doexit);		/* Control-\ */

/* Input can either be from standard input (redirected stdin, pipe, or MM */
/* PRINT command), or else from a list of files given on the command line. */

/* Case 1: Print from Standard Input, e.g. "pcprint < test.txt". */

    if (argc == 1) {			/* If printing from standard input */
	fd = 0;				/* File descriptor 0 = stdin */
	dofile();			/* Print until no more data */
	doexit();			/* Done */
    }

/* Case 2: Filename(s) specified on command line, e.g. "pcprint x.a x.b". */
/* Each file must be opened, printed, & closed.  Skip over directory files. */

    nf = 0;				/* Current file number. */
    while (++nf < argc) {		/* Start with file 1, if any .*/
	if (stat(argv[nf],&statbuf) < 0) /* First see if the file exists. */
	  continue;			/* Doesn't exist, try next one. */
	x = statbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT;	/* Check file format. */
	if ((x != 0) && (x != S_IFREG))	/* If not a regular file, */
	  continue;			/* try the next file. */
	if ((fd = open(argv[nf]),0) < 0) /* Try to open the file read-only. */
	  continue;			/* On failure, try next file. */
	dofile();			/* Opened OK, call printing function */
	close(fd);			/* and after printing close the file */
    }
    doexit();				/* No more files, clean up and exit. */
}

/* Function to print one file */

dofile() {
    char buf[BUFL];			/* Input buffer */
    int i;				/* Input buffer counter */
    int n;				/* Input character EOF indicator */
    char c;				/* Input character itself */
    int done;				/* Flag for done */

    done = 0;				/* Initial condition for loop. */
    while (!done) {			/* While not done... */
	stty(1,&old);			/* Put terminal in normal mode */
					/* to catch terminal interrupts. */
	for (i = 0; i < BUFL-1; i++) {  /* Loop to fill the input buffer. */
	    n = read(fd,&c,1);		/* Read one character. */
	    if (n == 0) {		/* If no more, */
		done = 1;		/* we're done! */
		break;			/* Break out of this for-loop. */
	    }
	    if (c == '\n') 		/* If character is a newline, */
	      buf[i++] = '\r';		/* supply a carriage return. */
	    buf[i] = c;			/* Deposit character in buffer. */
	}
	stty(1,&new);			/* Put tty in raw (no-parity) mode. */
	write(1,buf,i);			/* Request UNIX write the buffer. */
	fflush(stdout);			/* Now make UNIX really do it. */
    }
}

/* Exit function.  Leave user's terminal the way it was upon entry. */
/* Turn off transparent print by sending the escape sequence "ESC [ 4 i". */

doexit() {				/* Program exit. */
    if (fd != 0) close(fd);		/* Close any open input file. */
    signal(SIGINT,SIG_DFL);		/* Return keyboard interrupts */
    signal(SIGQUIT,SIG_DFL);		/* to normal. */
    printf("%c[4i",'\033');		/* Turn off transparent print. */
    fflush(stdout);			/* Make sure it goes out. */
    stty(1,&old);			/* Restore terminal to normal. */
    exit(0);				/* And exit. */
}


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nroff source for manpage for "pcprint"
(view with Unix command "nroff -man") 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

.TH PCPRINT 1C LOCAL 
.SH NAME
pcprint \- print on local PC printer
.SH SYNOPSIS
pcprint file [file ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I pcprint
allows you to print data from the UNIX system on a printer which is
connected to your terminal or PC.  The terminal must be a DEC VT102,
VT200 series, or VT300 series, or compatible, or your PC must be running
software that emulates one of these terminals, and the emulation must
include the "transparent print" feature.  For example, MS-Kermit 2.31 or 
later may be used on the IBM PC or PS/2 with pcprint.

The pcprint command may be used to print either text or binary files on
your printer.  To do this, pcprint overrides the normal even parity issued by
the UNIX terminal driver.

While pcprint is active, text sent to your screen is redirected to the local
printer by the terminal or PC's internal mechanisms.  These are triggered
when the special escape sequence "ESC [ 5 i" is received, and are deactivated
when when "ESC [ 4 i" is received.  These sequences are sent by pcprint.
.RE
.SH INVOCATION OPTIONS
.TP
.B pcprint
lets you type from the keyboard directly to your printer.  End with Ctrl-D.
.TP
.B pcprint file
prints the UNIX file on your printer.  "file" may be a single file,
a list of files, or a wildcard file specification.  If more than one file
is specified, they are not separated on the printout (but see below).
.TP
.B pcprint < file
prints the UNIX file on your printer.  If more than one file is specified,
only the first one is printed.
.TP
.B command | pcprint
The standard output of any UNIX command may be piped to pcprint.
.PP
The pcprint command may be used with the MM mail program to print mail
messages on your local printer from within MM.  To do this, issue the
MM command "set print-filter pcprint".  Subsequent MM "print" commands
will go to your local printer.

The pcprint program may also be used with the UNIX "pr" command to produce
paginated listings.  For example:

  pr -f *.c | pcprint

will print all your C programs with page headings containing the date and
time, filename, and page number, with formfeeds inserted between each page.
You can include "pr" in your MM print-filter too:

  set print-filter pr -f -h "E-Mail Message" | pcprint

The pcprint program can be safely interrupted by typing Control-C.  If you
interrupt it this way, it will restore your terminal to normal (non-printing).

.SH SEE ALSO
mm(l), pr(1)
.sp 1.0v
Christine Gianone et al, "MS-DOS Kermit User's Guide", Columbia 
University, December 1988. 
.SH AUTHORS
Christine Gianone and Frank da Cruz, Columbia University, March 1989.
.SH BUGS
No known problems on the SUN computers.  VAX computers running Ultrix may
not be able to respond to flow control commands from the terminal or PC,
and therefore data may be lost during printing.

If you run pcprint from a terminal or PC that does not have a printer
attached, or with a printer that is not turned on, the terminal or PC may
become stuck waiting for the printer to become ready.


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Subject: Re: VT-100 Commands
Message-ID: <D9yxt2.HMK@stepeng.com>
From: dan@stepeng.com (Daniel Weaver)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 17:55:49 GMT
Followup-To: comp.terminals
References: <ojpRULq00iV5Q3CJ1y@andrew.cmu.edu>
            <7JUN199512355584@erich.triumf.ca>
Organization: Step Engineering
Keywords: VT-100
Lines: 18

In article <7JUN199512355584@erich.triumf.ca>,
 bennett@erich.triumf.ca (P.Bennett) writes:
>
>   void gotoxy( int x, int y )
>   {
>      printf( "\033[%d;%dH\000\000", y, x );
>   }
>
>   /* \033 = Escape */
>
>   the \000 chars seem to be needed to give the terminal time to do
>   its thing...

I've got some bad news for you, Peter.  The \000 character gets swallowed by 
printf() and never makes it to the terminal.  If you want to send NULLs to
the terminal, you need to use putc(), or write().  Another way to do this
is to send \200 (0x80 hex).

printf() stops parsing when it sees the first NULL.

Follow-ups should be redirected to comp.terminals.

Dan Weaver
<dan@stepeng.com>

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From: luke@ozramp.ozramp.net.au (Luke Webber)
Date: 20 Sep 1996 08:06:11 +1000
Message-ID: <51sg4j$tem@ozramp.ozramp.net.au>
References: <geolin.2.0011DAC1@iafrica.com>
Keywords: slave wyse50
Subject: Re: Slave printing for wyse50 emulation


geolin@iafrica.com (George Woodman & Linette Goddard) writes:

>I am experiencing a problem with the @(-17) function in Pick Basic. The
>'define-terminal' definition lists the code for 'slave on' as 'DC2'. I changed
>this to 'CAN', but it does not seem to have made any difference. Has anybody
>had a similar problem. I am running AP version 5 on a 486 processor.
>Thanks in advance.

DC2 should be the correct sequence to turn on slave printing, and DC4
should turn it off. Is it possible you are using the wrong type of cable?
It should be a straight-through cable, not a null modem.

Luke
--
Luke Webber


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From: richlove@netcom.com (Rich Love)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.pick
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 96 03:01:42 GMT
Organization: Carnation Software
Message-ID: <R.richlove.1193748942A@nntp.netcom.com>
References: <geolin.2.0011DAC1@iafrica.com>
Subject: Re: Slave printing for wyse50 emulation

In Article <geolin.2.0011DAC1@iafrica.com>, geolin@iafrica.com (George
Woodman & Linette Goddard) wrote:
>I am experiencing a problem with the @(-17) function in Pick Basic. The
>'define-terminal' definition lists the code for 'slave on' as 'DC2'. I changed
>this to 'CAN', but it does not seem to have made any difference. Has anybody
>had a similar problem. I am running AP version 5 on a 486 processor.
>Thanks in advance.


CAN should work for you. That is a Control X (or CHAR 24) which is Printer
On for a Wyse 50 terminal.  DC2 should also work.

Try this test:
Write a basic program on your host
001 PRINT CHAR(24): "This should print"
002 PRINT CHAR(20):

If that works, your terminal or terminal emulator is working correctly and
the problem is that define-terminal is not working for some reason. If it
does not work, then your terminal or emulation software is to blame.


   Rich Love - Carnation Software, Inc.
   Terminal emulation for Macintosh.
   Visit our home page at:
   http://www.carnation-software.com/~carn


 ..................................

ARCHIVER'S NOTE:                                                 (1998-03-17)

One program I've used is the Windows telnet client SimpTerm by Jianqing Hu.

     http://www.iit.edu/~hujianq/simpterm.html
     http://www.iit.edu/~hujianq/spterm08.exe

Here's how it handles printing-through-the-terminal.

When the DEC "turn on printer-controller mode" command (CSI 5 i) is
received, SimpTerm opens a file SPTNET.PRN in the program's current
directory and begins placing characters in that file.  When the
"turn off" command (CSI 4 i) is received, it closes the file.

(Instead of 8-bit CSI you may use   ESC [   --the 7-bit equivalent.)

One then can use any of several methods to transmit the file's contents
to a printer.  (Either COPY to an attached PC printer, or use some
client program to print over the network.)

 ...RSS

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Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <5500a6$f8@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
References: <1996Oct26.214041.1759@nntp.muohio.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:49:26 GMT
From: vidrined@u.washington.edu (Donna Vidrine)
Subject: Re: 3270

howardjp@ham.muohio.edu (James Howard) writes:

> Okay, I got my answer to the VT100 question.  Now I would like to know
> the escape sequence for the print to attached printer for the IBM 3270
> terminal protocol.

The first byte of outbound (ie. from the host to the terminal) data
is the 3270 command;  if it's a write command (Write/Erase Write/Erase
Write Alternate) then the second byte is the Write Control Character
or WCC.  One bit in the WCC signals the terminal to print the screen
after the rest of the current data block has been processed.

-- 
Donna Vidrine



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As of December A.D. 1996, there is special code available (in C) to 
print remotely-via-terminal to particular Hewlett-Packard laser printers.
See:

    ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/printers/


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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Date: 30 Jan 1998 14:20:41 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <6asnjp$2v0$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
References: <6as2jp$5it$1@trog.dra.hmg.gb>
NNTP-Posting-Host: watsun.cc.columbia.edu
From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Local Printing in Kermit 95

In article <6as2jp$5it$1@trog.dra.hmg.gb>,
Doug Pickering <djpickering@dera.gov.uk> wrote:
: I have a slight problem with an application using the local printing
: facility.
: 
: A VMS job allows a user to print a VMS file directly to a laserjet printer
: attached to a users' PC via local printing.  The job starts by switching
: to local printing then sending some initialisation characters to the
: printer to switch it to landscape and change the font.
: 
: The job then starts to print lines of the output to the printer which all
: goes well until after every 100 lines of output the print job is
: interrupted to display how many lines have been processed.
: 
: The effect of the status display is to end the print job and send it
: straight to the printer.  The next portion of the job is then queued as a
: separate job, without the page formatting and often in the middle of the
: page.
: 
: I have looked at the possibility of removing the status display and also
: the possibility of it breaking on page boundaries and re-initialising the
: printer.  Both these solutions have undesirable drawbacks.
: 
: The reason the status display is on the screen is because a piece of
: software checks for screen activity and if none is found within a preset
: time the user is disconnected.  This was happening regularly and so the
: status line was put in.  Up until now all the users have been using DOS
: but the move to NT is causing problems.
: 

The best way to get a diagnosis, and hopefully a solution, is to collect
a session log that demonstrates the problem, and send it to:
 
  kermit-support@columbia.edu
 
However, I can hazard a guess without the log.  Assuming you are using VT
terminal emulation, host directed printing works in a very simple way:
there is one escape sequence to start printing, and another to stop, period,
as described on pages 54-55 of the Kermit 95 manual.
 
So what should Kermit do when it receives the "stop printing" sequence?  If
this were a real terminal, there would not be any question -- it would
simply stop printing, because the printer is connected to the terminal
directly with a wire.  Sending a character to the printer causes the
character to be printed immediately (recall that VT printing was designed
for dot-matrix printers, which, unlike laser printers, print a character at
a time, not a page at a time).
 
But in Windows matters are a bit murkier, because we are going through
who-knows-how-many layers of printer drivers, spoolers, buffers, etc, and
possibly also accessing the printer through a network.  So if Kermit simply
stopped printing, then what would make the page come out of the printer?  So
Kermit must "close" the print job when it gets a "stop printing" command.
What happens when Kermit closes the printer depends entirely upon the
printer driver, spooler, etc -- items that are invisible to Kermit and
beyond its control, but perhaps configurable by you.
 
: I am informed that KEATerm does not exhibit the same behaviour.
: 

But then how does it know when to print a page without manual intervention?
 
To get the behavior you want, there would need to be additional protocol
in the escape sequences: one for "stop sending text to the printer but do
not close it", and another for "close the printer and force out the page".
There are no such commands in the VT terminal repertoire.
 
Anyway, let's have a look at the logs and we'll see what can be done.
 
- Frank
 
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Date: 30 Jan 1998 14:39:40 GMT
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Local Printing in Kermit 95
 
In article <6as2jp$5it$1@trog.dra.hmg.gb>,
Doug Pickering <djpickering@dera.gov.uk> wrote:
: Hi,
: 
: I have a slight problem with an application using the local printing
: facility.
: 
: The effect of the status display is to end the print job and send it
: straight to the printer.  The next portion of the job is then queued as a
: separate job, without the page formatting and often in the middle of the
: page.
: 
 
This very situation is handled in Kermit 95 version 1.1.15.
 
The SET PRINTER command has a set of switches, one of them is the /TIMEOUT
switch.  From the online help:
 
/TIMEOUT[:number]
  Used with host-directed transparent or auto printing, this is the number
  of seconds to wait after the host closes the printer before terminating
  the print job if the printer is not opened again during the specified
  amount of time.

 
Updates to Kermit 95 are available on the Web at 
  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95patch.html
 
    Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
                 The Kermit Project * Columbia University
       612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025 * (212) 854-1344
    http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html * kermit-support@columbia.edu   
 


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References: <6ek7ms$202$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 03:01:35 GMT
From: dcoakley@interaccess.com (D. Oakley)
Subject: Re: IBM 3192 terminal printing problems

In article <6ek7ms$202$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, bill@audit.co.orange.ca.us wrote:
>
>I'm trying to do screen prints with an IBM model 3192 terminal and an Epson
>dot matrix printer.  I believe the printer is an FX-80 model and has a
>parallel interface.  I have the printer connected to the terminal and when I
>hit the print screen key, it prints garbage.  I have been told that the
>problem is that the 3192 has a serial printer port while the printer has a
>parallel interface.  I was hoping someone could confirm whether the IBM 3192
>has a serial or parallel printer port.
>Thanks for your help.


Yes, the IBM 3192 does have a serial printer port. 

You need a printer that works off of a serial port and not a parallel port.


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Message-ID: <6mc39s$1pa$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
References: <6mb6au$83h$1@clarknet.clark.net>
Date: 18 Jun 1998 22:11:08 GMT
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Finding printer on VT320/VT420
 
In article <6mb6au$83h$1@clarknet.clark.net>,
Keith Lynch <kfl@clark.net> wrote:
: Is there some way for the host system to find out what kind of printer
: is attached to a VT320 or VT420 terminal?  It's easy to tell whether a
: printer is there at all, but how can I determine what kind it is?
: 
: The host can put the terminal in controller mode so that everything
: from the host goes directly to the printer.  And the host can then
: send the "identify yourself" escape sequence.  But the printer's
: response seems to go nowhere, rather than being readable by the host
: (or even appearing on the terminal or the printer paper).
: 
 
You either need to put your terminal into bi-directional printer mode;
or use a terminal emulator such as Kermit 95 which supports bi-directional
printers.
 
See http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html for info.
 
 
 
    Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
                 The Kermit Project * Columbia University
              612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
  http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org/


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Message-ID: <6medsm$pft@nenevr.demon.co.uk>
References: <6mb6au$83h$1@clarknet.clark.net>
Organization: Chattham, Connem & Runn
Date: 19 Jun 1998 20:24:06 +0100
From: simon@nenevr.demon.co.uk (Simon Coombs)
Subject: Re: Finding printer on VT320/VT420

Keith Lynch (kfl@clark.net) wrote:
> 
> The host can put the terminal in controller mode so that everything
> from the host goes directly to the printer.  And the host can then
> send the "identify yourself" escape sequence.  But the printer's
> response seems to go nowhere, rather than being readable by the host
> (or even appearing on the terminal or the printer paper).

 
You need to go into the printer setup screen, and change "No Printer To 
Host" to "Printer to host". Your VT should then start forwarding anything 
it receives on the printer port up to the host. 
 
Good luck!
 
Simon.

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References: <36275c32.0@139.134.5.33>
Date: 16 Oct 1998 15:40:39 GMT
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Printer escape codes while printing.

In article <36275c32.0@139.134.5.33>, Simon Butcher <cool9@bigpond.com> wrote:
:
: Hi All,
:
: I'm trying to use printer escape codes to change printer font on a HP
: LaserJet connected to my terminal. Unfortunatly the terminal also starts
: interpreting these codes as well, removes what it beleives to be the VT102
: portion of the string and only sends the rest of the text to the printer,
: whilst interpreting the rest of the codes.
:
: Can anyone point me in the right direction to turning off the VT102
: translation while in printing mode, or at least a way around it?
:
: Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks!


If you are using transparent (print controller) mode for printing
the terminal emulator MUST leave the data stream alone and not
interpret anything but the printer off escape sequences.

If you are using a terminal emulator that does not do this,
get a new one.  Kermit 95 does this correctly.

See http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html for details.

    Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
                 The Kermit Project * Columbia University
              612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
  http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org/


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[From the Archiver...]

A Televideo 955 (which may be also known as a Stratus V102) has
several options for controlling a printer attached through the terminal.
A Link MC-5 (V103) can emulate these fairly well.                      a-166568

Streaming Print modes are as follows:

 --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------
 Control  |
 Sequence |  Effect
 --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------
          |
  ESC @   |  Buffered copy print mode On
  ESC A   |  Buffered copy print mode off
          |
  ESC `   |  Buffered transparent print mode On   (2nd char is accent grave)
  ESC a   |  Buffered transparent print mode off
          |
  DC2     |  Buffered bidirectional print mode On
  DC4     |  Buffered bidirectional print mode off
          |
 --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------

Buffered copy print mode: all data from the computer goes to both
the screen and to the printer.

Buffered transparent print mode: data from the computer passes through
the terminal, NOT being displayed on the screen, and is printed by the
printer.

Buffered bidirectional print mode: data can pass in BOTH directions
through the terminal.  Data from the computer goes to the screen;
data from the printer passes through the terminal to the computer but
is NOT displayed on the screen.  When the terminal receives a command
to disable bidirectional printing, the screen continues to display 
incoming data.  The terminal no longer transmits data from the
printer to the computer, and printing stops after the terminal's
print buffer empties.


Page Print modes are as follows:

 ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------------
 Control          |
 Sequence         |  Effect
 ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------------
                  |
  ESC P           |  print unprotected fields, formatted
  ESC L           |  print entire screen, unformatted
                  |
  ESC [ 0 ; 0 i   |  print entire screen, formatted
  ESC [ 0 ; 1 i   |  print unprotected fields, formatted
  ESC [ 0 ; 4 i   |  print entire screen, unformatted
  ESC [ 0 ; 5 i   |  print unprotected fields, formatted
                  |
 ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------------

For formatted page printing, the terminal adds CR, LF, and NUL characters
after each line.  In UNformatted page printing, it does not.

After completion of a page-print operation, the terminal sends a
termination character to the printer.  This is normally ACK, but it 
can be changed, using this 3-byte control sequence:

    ESC  p  <desired_character>

The Print Flip value can be changed:

    ESC [ = 1 5 h          page print flip On
    ESC [ = 1 5 l          page print flip off


 ...RSS

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In the summer of A.D. 2001, Paul Leondis <paul(at)leondis(dot)com> explored
the properties of the printer port on the MicroTerm product that emulates a
DEC VT220 video terminal.  He reported:

|   I don't have a vt100, but i do have a vt220 and a 'micro-term' brand
|   clone that does vt220 and tek4014 i think.  I tried to get the printer
|   ports working on these animals.  Neither one corresponds to the pinout
|   for the printer port on the vt100 [in the archived information], and
|   they were different from each other.

|   Basically what I found is that for the real vt220, the port is as
|   described in Paul Celigne's message: the male DB9 'printer' connector
|   on the terminal sends data (TXD) on pin 2, listens for data (RXD) on
|   pin 3, and listens for pin 6 to be driven high by the printer.  If pin
|   6 is not high, the terminal won't send anything.  I had a big problem
|   getting it to work because there are lots of cables out there that
|   transpose pins 2 and 3 but not DTR and DSR (6 and 20) when making the
|   transition to DB25 connectors.  Thus i had to modify a serial cable to
|   get the vt220 to talk e.g. to a Laserjet II.
|   
|   The Micro-Term vt200 clone has a male DB25 for printer port, but it
|   seems again to reverse the sense of DTR and DSR for a normal DTE port.
|   I.e., it talks data on 2 and listens data on 3, as expected, BUT
|   instead of driving pin 20 high it LISTENS for pin 20 to be driven high
|   by the other side.  Thus to go to a normal printer w/a DTE port, you
|   have to transpose 2 and 3, but leave pin 20 straight through.  Thus
|   you can't use a normal null modem cable, nor can you use a
|   straight-through cable. You have to make a custom.  Why they did this
|   is a mystery to me, unless it was to generate revenue from selling
|   their own special cables???
|   

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Organization: http://www.usenet.com/
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:08:38 -0500
From: Kenneth R. Robinette <support@securenetterm.com>
Subject: Re: Netterm -how to print on local printer

"Ola Cembrowicz" <olac@poczta.onet.pl> wrote in message
news:c28d5172.0208080009.2614fce8@posting.google.com...
>
> Hi,
> I would like to know why I can not print on printer attached directly
> to my PC running Windows 2000. Previously I was user of 95 and NT. It
> was not problem with printing on my local printer. When I changed OS
> (but not settings of all parameters concerning printing of Netterm) it
> is no possibility to print
> anymore.
> Can you explain my why it does not work? It is problem of 2000 or
> netterm?
>
> Waiting for your response


The NetTerm option to "print directly to printer" was put into NetTerm in
the days of Windows 3.1 when it was acceptable to bypass all of the Windows
printer drivers, and allow a host application to access the printer direct.
This option is still available, since many Windows 3.1 systems still exist.

However, on newer Windows operating systems, this option should not be used.
You should select the "send to windows printer" option to send normal text
files.  This option will utilize the normal Windows printer driver for your
selected printer.

For those host applications that require direct access to the printer, use
the option "send to windows print queue".  This does bypass the Windows
driver, and does require the host application to completely control the
printer.  However it is the preferred way to bypass the Windows printer
drivers.

Ken

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    <vjk2la.gjm.ln@Lonmay.wew.co.uk>
Message-ID: <662631ffc351bb3d@mayday.cix.co.uk>
Organization: Mayday Technology Ltd
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:10:23 +0100
From: Robert de Bath <rd11934@mayday.cix.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Remote print

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, it was written:

> Luiz Rafael Culik <culik@sl.conex.net> wrote in message
> news:e896e973.0209010515.33ccb913@posting.google.com...
> > Does any one successfully print to an remote printer using an program
> > over an terminal(Telnet)
>
> Yes. Would you like to be more specific?

One sneaky method I've used is this:

$ hpljformat file.c | ONAME=prn sz -y -

You know in MS-DOS 2.0, the one where directory paths first appeared, you
could force apps to have to put a /dev/ in front of any device name.

Instead now that line even tends to work for Windows programs where
it causes security problems and crashes ... Grrrrrrrr.

-- 
Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                       <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>

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Message-ID: <b38cd074.0301301043.105158c1@posting.google.com>
Date: 30 Jan 2003 10:43:25 -0800
From: Yves St-Arnaud <yves_st_arnaud@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: TeraTerm.

yves_st_arnaud@hotmail.com (Yves St-Arnaud) wrote in message
news:<b38cd074.0301300800.bd6f6c4@posting.google.com>...
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I want my printer, a POS Epson TM-T88III, to print french characters (éèê...)
> from teraterm.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Yves St-Arnaud

I found the solution. In teraterm.ini, with this line

    PrnFont=Terminal,0,-10,0

Thanks.


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Date: 31 Jan 2003 06:14:30 -0800
From: Yves St-Arnaud <yves_st_arnaud@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: TeraTerm.

yves_st_arnaud@hotmail.com (Yves St-Arnaud) wrote:
> 
> I found the solution. In teraterm.ini, with this line
> PrnFont=Terminal,0,-10,0
> 
> Thanks.

Oops, problem is coming back. 

It's OK if I use the item <Print> in the <File> menu of 
teraterm but not when the Unix application prints a report !!!!


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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:35:04 +0100
From: chris <chris@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: vt525 programmers manual

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 16:40 Paul Williams wrote in 
<3E491958.787317D5@uk.thalesgroup.com>
>
> chris wrote:
>> 
>> I would like to know if it is possible to switch the printerport
>> from comm3 to comm2 and vice versa through ascii-programming, and
>> if it is possible to set the comm parameters.
> 
> Which ASCII emulation mode are you using? The sequences aren't the same
> for all modes.
> 
> - Paul

I believe the terminal is currently set to vt100 mode, but I'm more or less 
able to choose between various modes (no fancy schmansy stuff used).

I finally found the manual on the internet (google's your friend :))
And the mnemonic seems to be DECSCP:
CSI     Ps1     ;       Ps2     *       u
where:
        Ps1     Printer Port
        0       none
        1       Centronics
        4       comm3
and:
        Ps2     Host connection
        1       comm1
        2       comm2
        3       comm3

In the VT525s setup I can choose comm2 as printer port also, and this works.
Because the setup is at clients site I cannot test whether it is possible to 
select comm2 as printer port (by sending ps1=3).
Maybe you can confirm this works?

Thanks,
    Chris

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From: Paul Williams <flo@uk.thalesgroup.com>
Subject: Re: vt525 programmers manual

chris wrote:
> 
> I believe the terminal is currently set to vt100 mode, but I'm
> more or less able to choose between various modes (no fancy schmansy
> stuff used).

Ah, OK. VT100 is an ANSI mode, not an ASCII mode, which would be Wyse
something-or-other, Televideo or ADDS.

> I finally found the manual on the internet (google's your friend :))
> And the mnemonic seems to be DECSCP:

Where is the manual? I can't find it with Google or Altavista. I'll have
a look at the manual (on old-fashioned paper!) tonight, but I think that
you might also need DECSCS (Select Communication Speed) and DECSFC
(Select Flow Control).

> In the VT525s setup I can choose comm2 as printer port also, and
> this works. Because the setup is at clients site I cannot test
> whether it is possible to select comm2 as printer port (by sending
> ps1=3). Maybe you can confirm this works?

You can test whether the sequence does what you want locally by setting
the VT525 to local mode and typing the sequence on the keyboard. You can
then go into Setup and see whether the setting has changed.

If you're saying that the VT525 itself is at another site, I'll try it
on the keyboard tonight and get back to you.

- Paul


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From: chris <chris@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: vt525 programmers manual

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 19:27 Paul Williams wrote:
> Where is the manual? I can't find it with Google or Altavista.

Here's where I found it:

http://web.mit.edu/dosathena/doc/www/ek-vt520-rm.pdf    (approx.4,5MB)

You're right in saying I'll have to change comm speeds and flowctrl, but I 
sorta guessed/hoped that'd be possible anyway.

The main thing I need to know is whether sending the code to put the printer 
on comm2 and back to comm3 really works, If you're willing to try this I'd 
be much obliged. (the terminal is at a customers location indeed)

Thanks,
    Chris
-- 
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:00:47 -0000
From: Paul Williams <news@celigne.co.uk>
Subject: Re: vt525 programmers manual

chris <chris@xs4all.nl> wrote in
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> Here's where I found it:
> http://web.mit.edu/dosathena/doc/www/ek-vt520-rm.pdf approx.4,5MB

Astonishing! That file was available on DEC's FTP site for a short period 
after the Terminals business was sold in 1995, but it disappeared years 
ago. Thanks for the pointer.

> The main thing I need to know is whether sending the code to put the
> printer on comm2 and back to comm3 really works, If you're willing to
> try this I'd be much obliged. (the terminal is at a customers location
> indeed)

The VT520 and VT525 are identical for this purpose, so I've tried this on 
my VT520. (The control sequences below are spaced out for clarity only.)

First of all, I established how the ports were used by sending DECRQSS from 
the host to the terminal:

   DCS $ q * u ST                         [corrected]

The terminal responds with DECRPSS:

   DCS 1 $ r 0 ; 1 * u ST

"0 = No port for printer; 1 = host session on Comm1"

I decide to select the Centronics parallel port for the printer by sending 
DECSCP:

   CSI 1 ; 1 * u

And then I check that this worked by sending DECRQSS again, prompting the 
VT520 to respond:

   DCS 1 $ 1 ; 1 * u ST

"1 = printer on parallel port; 1 = host session on Comm1"

Note that the manual's description of DECRPSS is wrong.
It says that "DCS 1  ..." means that the request was invalid,
but that is wrong. "DCS 0 ..."  means the request is invalid.

There are many other mistakes in the VT510 and VT520/VT525 programmer 
references. I hope I've corrected them all in the HTML versions, due to go 
online in the next couple of weeks.

- Paul

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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:40:03 +0100
From: chris <chris@xs4all.nl>
Subject: vt525 printer port selection

I was able to test the commands today...

command                 result
CSI 0 ; 1 * u ST        printer port none, host port comm1
CSI 1 ; 1 * u ST        printer port centronics, host port comm1
CSI 2 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
CSI 3 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
CSI 4 ; 1 * u ST        printer port commm3, host port comm1
CSI 5 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
CSI 6 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
CSI 7 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
CSI 8 ; 1 * u ST        invalid

I checked the results by checking the setup screen, where nothing was 
changed I interpreted the command to be invalid.

The terminal is a new Boundless VT525 with v2.2c rom.

Although one can select comm2 as printer port, this is not possible by 
sending the DECSCP command. :(

I'm wondering if this is oversight by the Boundless engineers, a bug, or 
just "a feature", and how I can remedy this situation.

Before I start emailing boundless, can anyone give me some advice or 
previous experience on such matters/requests?

Thanks,
    Chris
-- 
One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet
when well oiled.

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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:06:13 +0000
From: Paul Williams <flo@uk.thalesgroup.com>
Subject: Re: vt525 printer port selection

chris wrote:
> 
> I was able to test the commands today...
> 
> command                 result
> CSI 0 ; 1 * u ST        printer port none, host port comm1
> CSI 1 ; 1 * u ST        printer port centronics, host port comm1
> CSI 2 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
> CSI 3 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
> CSI 4 ; 1 * u ST        printer port commm3, host port comm1
> CSI 5 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
> CSI 6 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
> CSI 7 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
> CSI 8 ; 1 * u ST        invalid
> 
> I checked the results by checking the setup screen, where nothing
> was changed I interpreted the command to be invalid.


OK, those results tie up with the manual. You don't need to send ST at
the end of those sequences, because the "u" terminates them.

You can check whether these settings are valid from the host as well, by
sending the DECRQSS sequence I mentioned before. For example, if the
initial state is that there is no port selected for the printer and the
host is on Comm1, the response to DECRQSS will be:

DCS 1 $ r 0 ; 1 * u ST

Now send an invalid DECSCP: CSI 8 ; 1 * u

Send DECRQSS: DCS $ q * u ST

The response should be: DCS 1 $ r 0 ; 1 * u ST

i.e. unchanged from the initial state.

> Although one can select comm2 as printer port, this is not possible
> by sending the DECSCP command. :(

Are you saying you can select it from Setup? The Figure 2-18 in the
manual suggests that this isn't possible, although the manual might be
out of step with the firmware.

If you go into Setup and select Comm2 as the printer port, what is the
response when you send DECRQSS?

I'll try these on my VT520 and VT525 tonight and get back to you.

- Paul


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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:42:55 -0000
From: Paul Williams <news@celigne.co.uk>
Subject: Re: vt525 printer port selection

Paul Williams <flo@uk.thalesgroup.com> wrote in 
news:3E4BDE95.BE8003DA@uk.thalesgroup.com:

> chris wrote:
>> 
>> Although one can select comm2 as printer port, this is not possible
>> by sending the DECSCP command. :(
> 
> Are you saying you can select it from Setup? The Figure 2-18 in the
> manual suggests that this isn't possible, although the manual might be
> out of step with the firmware.
> 
> If you go into Setup and select Comm2 as the printer port, what is the
> response when you send DECRQSS?

OK, Chris, I am happy to report that you _can_ do what you want, and 
that you've found another omission from the manual!

You can only select Comm2 as a printer port if it isn't already assigned to 
another session. If it's assigned to another session, it is greyed-out in 
the Setup screen and DECSCP cannot select it.

However, if you turn off the other sessions or assign them to other comm 
ports, Comm2 becomes available as a printer port and in this case, you can 
select it from Setup and with DECSCP.

So, the omissions from the manual are:

1. Figure 2-18 doesn't show that Comm2 is available for the printer.

2. The description of DECSCP doesn't show the Ps1 value that will select 
Comm2.

I can confirm that the sequence

   CSI 3 * u

will select Comm2 as the printer port if it is available. You can check 
whether DECSCP did what you requested by sending DECRQSS and reading the 
DECRPSS sequence that the VT525 return.

Therefore the table of Ps1 parameters for DECSCP should be amended to read:

Ps1    Printer Port
0      None
1      Centronics
3      Comm2
4      Comm3

Incidentally, my VT520 doesn't allow Comm2 to be selected as a printer 
port, although perhaps that is because it has V2.1 firmware. I can see I'm 
going to have to check my other VT520s to see if they are more up-to-date!

Regards,
Paul


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From: chris <chris@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: vt525 printer port selection

On Thursday 13 February 2003 22:42 Paul Williams wrote in 
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<snip>
> I can confirm that the sequence
> 
>    CSI 3 * u
> 
> will select Comm2 as the printer port if it is available. You can check
> whether DECSCP did what you requested by sending DECRQSS and reading the
> DECRPSS sequence that the VT525 return.
> 
> Therefore the table of Ps1 parameters for DECSCP should be amended to
> read:
> 
> Ps1    Printer Port
> 0      None
> 1      Centronics
> 3      Comm2
> 4      Comm3
> 
> Incidentally, my VT520 doesn't allow Comm2 to be selected as a printer
> port, although perhaps that is because it has V2.1 firmware. I can see I'm
> going to have to check my other VT520s to see if they are more up-to-date!


Well, that sounds like good news!

I didn't know this specific code was in the manual or at all possible.
I'm confident that selecting port speed and handshaking will work in the 
expected manner.

On firmware: has anyone ever opened a VT terminal and changed the ROM chip 
for an EPROM type with custom programming?

Regarding your VT520: our customer has VT520-alike terminals (Visa) at the 
moment, running pre-v2.2 firmware, and it's not possible to choose comm2 to 
be printer. So that may confirm your findings.

On your website: might it be a good idea to put pictures of the terminals on 
the site? I only know I would like to see a picture of the different models

Again, Paul, many thanks.
    Chris

-- 
'I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
                -- G. K. Chesterton

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From: chris <chris@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: vt525 changing communication parameters

On Sunday 16 February 2003 23:16 chris wrote in
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> I have a terminal connected to comm3 of the vt525 (the terminal is
> mimicking a serial printer)
> 
> The printer port is set comm3
> 
> In the setup I choose 9600n81 to be the comm parameters for the
> printerport, same settings are applied to the terminal.
> 
> Next I send the following comands to the vt525:
> # Set speed to 1200             CSI 3 ; 3 * r
> echo -e "\033[3;3*r"
> # Set parameters to 7 O 1       CSI 2 ; 2 ; 3 ; 1 + w
> echo -e "\033[2;2;3;1+w"
> # Set flow control to XON/XOFF  CSI 2 ; 3 ; 0 * s
> echo -e "\033[2;3;0*s"
> 
> If I look in setup again, all parameters appear to have changed.
> They have in fact not. When I hit printscreen the terminal happily blurts
> out at the original speed of 9600baud.
> 
> 
> Can someone confirm this behaviour?
> Or am I missing something?

Let me answer this myself...

Boundless has confirmed this to be a bug in the 2.2 releases of the firmware
(2.2a, 2.2b, 2.2c). When and if an update will be available is unknown at
this time.

Regards,
    Chris
-- 
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From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: standard ansi or scoansi escape sequence?

In comp.terminals Dennis Edward <nospam@nowaynohow.org> wrote:
:
: Does anyone know if the sequences ESC+W and ESC+X to turn transparent print
: on and off, are standard ansi or scoansi sequences? If not, are there any
: "proper" sequences for this function?


The ESC W and ESC X sequences are part of the VT52 terminal commands.
They are not part of ANSI X3.64.  

In fact, those sequences were used for *other* puposes in at least one
ANSI-X3.64-based terminal (Ann Arbor)

Jeffrey Altman
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http://www.wyse.com/service/support/kbase/wits/80624.txt

TOPIC:  ANSI PRINT COMMANDS (for Wyse terminals)

DATE:  1993-06-30

PRODUCT:   WY120  WY150  WY160  WY185  WY285  WY325  WY370  WY520
           WY120es  WY150es  WY160es  WY185es  WY285es WY325es
           WY520es  WY85  WY99GT

THE ISSUE:
        Commands to enable and disable print modes.

RESOLUTION:

        Page print (prints all information currently displayed on
        terminal screen)

                    Octal              Decimal            Hex
        ESC[0i   033 133 060 151    027 091 048 105    1B 5B 30 69

        Auto print (prints on both the terminal and the printer,
        terminal can interact with the system during this process)

   Print on:
                    Octal              Decimal             Hex

   ESC[?5i   033 133 077 065 151   027 091 063 053 105  1B 5B 3F 35 69

   Print off:

   ESC[?4i   033 133 077 064 151   027 091 063 052 105  1B 5B 3F 34 69

    Controller print (print is passed through the terminal and
    displayed only on the printer)
    The terminal will pass all codes, but the print on and off
    commands, and Xon Xoff commands if this type of handshaking
    is being used. The terminal will not interact with the
    operating system during the print.

    Print on:
                 Octal            Decimal             Hex

    ESC[5i    033 133 065 151    027 091 053 105     1B 5B 35 69

    Print off:
                 Octal            Decimal             Hex

    ESC[4i    033 133 064 151    027 091 052 105     1B 5B 34 69

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"lpshim" (Updated: January 12, 2004)

On http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/, Josh Larios writes:

Mac OS X's Terminal application prior to Panther (10.3) doesn't support
ANSI printer control sequences, which means that people who have upgraded
from OS 9 to OS X--but not all the way to Panther--who may have been
used to printing from Pine to their desktop printer can no longer do so.
"lpshim" is a printer shim which runs in the terminal and intercepts
ANSI printer control sequences. Available as a very small disk-image file.

    http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/lpshim.dmg

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From: kmouline <kmouline@gmail.com>
Subject: /usr/bin/X11/xterm purist user

Hello all,

thanks to Simon J. Loewenthal who advice to post my question in this
group,

I have googled for hours but without any success :

I have encapsulated xterm on  on an rsh based script from a Solaris Box to
run locally some cobol applications that are installed on a remote UNIX
server, Runing application is fine, printing from remote to local is fine,
but some application screen have to be printed directly from the xterm
window.

======================================================
rsh -l ${user} $(remotehost) "/usr/bin/X11/xterm -title "AGENCE-BMCE" -sb -sl 1200 -geo ${COLS}x35 -fg ${FG} -bg ${BG} \
	-cr red -fn ${FONT} -fb ${BFONT} -xrm \
	'XTerm*VT100.translations:     #override \n\
	<Key>Insert:		string(\001) \n\
	Shift <Key>Up:		scroll-back(1,lines) \n\
	Shift <Key>Down:	scroll-forw(1,lines) \n\
	Shift <Key>Right:	string(0x1b) string("f") \n\
	Shift <Key>Left:	string(0x1b) string("b") \n\
	Shift <Key>Delete:	string(0x1b) string(0x08) \n\
	Shift <Key>Tab: 	string(0x1b) string("*") \n\
	<Key>0x1000FF0D:	scroll-back(1,page) \n\
	<Key>0x1000FF0E:	scroll-forw(1,page) \n\
	<Key>0x1000FF09:	string(\010) \n\
	<Key>0x1000FF0A:	string(\005) \n\
	<Key>BackSpace: 	string(0xff) \n\
	<Key>Select:		select-start() \n\
	<Key>0x1000FF02:	select-end(PRIMARY,CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
	Meta <Key>0x1000FF02:	select-end(CLIPBOARD) \n\
	<Key>0x1000FF04:	insert-selection(PRIMARY,CUT_BUFFER0)\n\
	Meta <Key>0x1000FF04:	insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
	<Key>F1:		string(0x1b) string("OP") \n\
	<Key>F2:		string(0x1b) string("OQ") \n\
	<Key>F3:		string(0x1b) string("OR") \n\
	<Key>F4:		string(0x1b) string("OS") \n\
	<Key>F5:		string(0x1b) string("[16~") \n\
	<Key>F11:		string(0x1b) string("[23~") \n\
	<Key>F12:		string(0x1b) string("[24~") \n\
	<Key>KP_Divide: 	string(0x1b) string("OP") \n\
	<Key>KP_Multiply:	string(0x1b) string("[29~") \n\
	<Key>KP_Subtract:	string(0x1b) string("Om") \n\
	<Key>KP_Add:		string(0x1b) string("Ol") \n\
	<Key>KP_Decimal:	string(".") \n\
	<KeyPress>Num_Lock:	string("\033") string("OP") \n\
	<KeyRelease>Num_Lock:	string("\033") string("OP") \n\
	<Key>KP_0:		string(0) \n\
	<Key>KP_1:		string(1) \n\
	<Key>KP_2:		string(2) \n\
	<Key>KP_3:		string(3) \n\
	<Key>KP_4:		string(4) \n\
	<Key>KP_5:		string(5) \n\
	<Key>KP_6:		string(6) \n\
	<Key>KP_7:		string(7) \n\
	<Key>KP_8:		string(8) \n\
	<Key>KP_9:		string(9) \n\
	<Btn1Down>:		select-start() \n\
	<Btn1Motion>:		select-extend() \n\
	<Btn1Up>:		select-end(PRIMARY,CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
	Button1<Btn2Down>:	select-end(CLIPBOARD) \n\
	Button1<Btn2Up>:	ignore()' \
	-d $(myHost)"$DISPLAY" -e /u/oldVT/appNew.vt"
======================================================

I have read the "How do I print the screen?" here:

    http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#how2_print

but without any success to find the popup menu entry to print the window.

Any feedback will be very appreciated.

Cheers,
Kamal

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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/X11/xterm purist user

kmouline <kmouline@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,

> thanks to Simon J. Loewenthal who advice to post my question in this
> group,

> I have googled for hours but without any success :


% man xterm


	  [ On a system running the "xterm" Thomas Dickey supports:
	    http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html ]


(But note that Sun, in Solaris, has its own version of xterm which does
not implement pass-through printing.)

In particular note the resources:

     printerAutoClose (class PrinterAutoClose)
     printerCommand (class PrinterCommand)
     printerControlMode (class PrinterControlMode)
     printerExtent (class PrinterExtent)
     printerFormFeed (class PrinterFormFeed)

and menu entries:

     Commands for capturing output:

          Log to File (logging)
               Captures text sent to the screen in a logfile,  as
               in the -l logging option.

          Print Window (print)
               Sends the text of the current window to  the  pro-
               gram given in the printerCommand resource.

-- 
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:42:36 -0500
From: David J Dachtera <djesys.no@spam.comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Printing with PuTTY

"firaxis13@gmail.com" wrote:
>
> I am trying to print to a Star TSP-600 receipt printer through PuTTY.
> It prints, but the print is very 'jerky'.  The way it prints reminds
> me of the old dot matrix line printers (print line, feed, print line,
> feed, repeat).  I have tried another terminal package (PowerTerm from
> Ericom) and it prints in one smooth feed.
>
> Does anyone know how to make PuTTY do this?


Have you tried using a [video] terminal instead of the printer
to see what is coming down the line?

You could even set the tube to display control characters instead of
processing them just to verify the data stream.

I'm guessing it might be a flow-control or handshake mismatch.

-- 
David J Dachtera
dba DJE Systems
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From: "demianphillips@gmail.com" <demianphillips@gmail.com>
Subject: More putty and printing fun (different from others AFAIK)

So I have attached printing giving me output and stuff going into my
windows print queue.

I see a single job on the unix side, but I get many (hundreds) of
individual small (24 bytes I think) files showing in the windows print
queue. Printer output about 21-22 characters in the upper left corner
of each page. It is all legable and the job I sent, just for some
reason instead of being sent as a single stream of text I am getting
this strange behavior.

Print must be VT100 control codes for start and stop, correct?

Should I be looking at a putty setting or does this sound more like a
issue with the control codes AIX is sending out?


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Date: 12 Jul 2007 00:20:19 +0100 (BST)
From: Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: More putty and printing fun (different from others AFAIK)

"demian phillips" <demianphillips@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I see a single job on the unix side, but I get many (hundreds) of
> individual small (24 bytes I think) files showing in the windows print
> queue.

I think some VT-printing applications interleave printer and screen
data using the start and stop sequences, relying on the terminal to
treat all the individual printer chunks as one job. This works with
a real terminal connected to a simple printer, and some emulators
implement a timeout before closing a print job, but PuTTY doesn't;
it starts a new job for every start sequence.


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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:07:51 -0000
From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Subject: Re: More putty and printing fun (different from others AFAIK)

Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> "demian phillips" <demianphillips@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I see a single job on the unix side, but I get many (hundreds) of
>> individual small (24 bytes I think) files showing in the windows print
>> queue.

> I think some VT-printing applications interleave printer and screen
> data using the start and stop sequences, relying on the terminal to
> treat all the individual printer chunks as one job. This works with
> a real terminal connected to a simple printer, and some emulators
> implement a timeout before closing a print job, but PuTTY doesn't;
> it starts a new job for every start sequence.


With xterm, it's optional:

     printerAutoClose (class PrinterAutoClose)
             If ``true'', xterm will close the printer  (a  pipe)
             when  the  application  switches the printer offline
             with  a  Media  Copy  command.    The   default   is
             ``false.''

-- 
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