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From: Jarkko Aitti <ajake@lola.etla.fi>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:20:32 +0300
Subject: Re: PPR: Some problems with PPR 1.40a7

> Nope.  The way it ends looks fine.  That is a Hewett Packard Universal Exit
> Language command.  The sequence <ESC>%-12345X, no end of line required.
> 
> Try switching the jobbreak method to control-d:
> 
> $ ppad jobbreak marianne control-d
> 
> I don't any specific reason it might, but it might make a difference.

Using control-d as a jobbreak made printer print postscript "source code" or
lots of empty pages.

Printer name: marianne
Interface: tcpip
Address: "marianne:9100"
Options: 
JobBreak: pjl (by default)
Feedback: yes
Codes: TBCP (by default) (I also tried with clean8bit and binary)
PPDFile: HP LaserJet 5Si
Flags: no no (banners discouraged, trailers discouraged)
OutputOrder: PPD
Default Filter Options: level=2 colour=False resolution=600 freevm=1515136
   mfmode=ljfive


I ruled out windows problems by printing from unix, for example
"ppad show marianne|ppr -d marianne" prints "ppad show" output in one page
and some crap page after that, usually with a single character "¶".

Any ideas? I copied ppr queue and jobs files (by ppop halt marianne) to
http://www.etla.fi/~ajake/ppr/

> If you are ambitious, you could also set up a test queue with the dummy
> interface and set jobbreak to "pjl" and see what it writes to the output
> file when you print to it from Win95.

Did this, you can find output of "ppad show foo|ppr -d foo" under same url,
filename foo-defaults and foo-pjl-tbcp which has jobbreak set to pjl and
codes set to tbcp, i have no idea what to look for.