-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Fish Fish Sent: 19 February 2022 20:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h390-vm] A question about vm/370 print output #VMCE
Dave Wade wrote:
Fish wrote:
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I would suggest taking a close look at VM/370's spooler logic. I'm sure you'll find the bug there somewhere. A bug which was likely fixed in later versions of VM.
Well VM/SP still does it. I suspect its intended behaviour. If I finish my Spanish homework I will have a look.
Before you (or Bob? or anyone else) does so however, you should first confirm whether or not it, as I suspect it might, only occurs on the very first printout or not, or whether it always occurs on every printout.
If it always occurs, then I can accept that it's expected behavior. If it only occurs on the very first printout however, then it's IMO probably a bug.
Define "First Print Out". VM has a "shedload" of printer and spool control command. So you can vary the physical printer on/offline. You can start, drain and stop the spooler Then you can change the spooler classes.
It possible that any one of these can trigger the "FF" character.
Either that or maybe it's (VM/370) trying to send some type of unusual undocumented CCW command code/data to the printer that Hercules isn't expecting. Maybe some type of special undocumented "reset" command perhaps?
Could be any one of the above...
-- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories
