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Suns-at-Home Digest         Fri,  9 Dec 88       Volume 1 : Issue  32 

Today's Topics:
                            2/120 vs 2/50
                      connecting epson printers
                           dialback program

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 13:52:08 EST
From: pur-ee!ames!harvard!yale!hsi!stepstone.com!aad (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: 2/120 vs 2/50
To: suns-at-home@ea.ecn.purdue.edu

I'm considering the purchase of a 2/120 or 2/50.  The 2/120 would have
an 1006 scsi board with an archive tape drive, the 2/50 would have
a scsi board.  Which is my better bet?  Which is faster?

anthony a datri
aad@stepstone.com

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 88 11:29:05 PST
From: pur-ee!cs.ucla.edu!trwspp!spp2!sol!rroux
Subject: connecting epson printers
To: Suns-at-Home@ea.ecn.purdue.edu

I have a Sun 3/50 running SunOS 4.0 and I've attached an Epson FX-80
printer to it via a serial-to-parallel converter.  I added an entry in
the printcap file, which basically just points it to the appropriate
device and does the banner stuff.

It basically works, except that data at the end of the file that's being
printed is usually lost.  Cycling the power on the printer usually results
in a few more words to be printed.  This happens when using 'lpr' or by
sending the file via 'cat'.

I have the baud rate currently set to 9600. I tried lower bauds (down to 300)
but that didn't help, in fact it usually made it worse!

Any ideas?  Has anyone else attached an Epson printer to the Sun?

Thanks,
Ray Roux

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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 88 14:37:30 PST
From: pur-ee!maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU!rodgers
Subject: dialback program
To: Suns-at-Home@mckay.uucp

In volume 1, number 31, Peter Gross writes:
> 
> ...does anyone out there know of a way to have a Sun
> dial a modem connected only to a terminal (ie, not another computer),
> then switch roles so the terminal can login?
> 
> --peter gross
> pag@scg.uu.net [Internet]
> ...uunet!scg!pag [uucp]

We wrote a dialback program called "callback" several years ago and use
it routinely.  It is distributed through the Berkeley Campus Software
Office as part of a package known as the "System Manager's Toolkit,"
for a modest fee.  Contact:

   Claire LeDonne, Manager, CSO
   (ledonne@violet.berkeley.edu)

Good Luck--

-- 
R. P. C. Rodgers, Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules, Dept. of Pharm. Chem.,
University of California, San Francisco CA 94118  (415)476-8910
(ARPA: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu, BITNET: rodgers@ucsfcca,
UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers)

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