LaserWriter II baud rate question

[David Collier-Brown]

In article <3397 at kalliope.rice.edu> felix!arcturus!dav at hplabs.hp.com (David L. Markowitz) writes:
| X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 2, message 1 of 9
| 38400 will work under 4.0.1 (get the serial patch tape), but not 3.X.
| 19200 is the maximum speed that lpd understands in 3.X.  They fixed lpd in
| 4.0, but unfortunately they forgot to fix "tip" (Hello?  Sun?  Hello?).
| It still maxes out at 19200.
| 
| I have one system running 4.0.1 that has an NTXII, so I tried to set it up
| at 38400.  After ten minutes of lpd using 9600 anyway, I was about to pull
| out some hair when I remembered that this system supported Interleaf TPS
| 3.X, and they had required replacing the 4.0 lpd with the 3.X one to work
| around a bug.  (*sigh*)  It does work at 19200, though.

    Now that's **odd**.
    I used to work for Interleaf Canada, and did find that LaserWriter
IInx's could be connected at 38400 under 3.4 (and 3.5) using either the
3.4 (bug-free) or 3.5 (spurious-out-of-space-on "lpr -s") lpd's.
    Mind you, I won't INSTALL one at anything but 9600, but that's
because the sites are "turnkey", and tend to wedge their LaserWriters
real good if you leave them at anything but the default speed. 

dave

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