Technical data

• The kit installation procedure and IVP have been enhanced to check for and
report running DCPS queues and components that might cause unpredictable
behavior during an upgrade.
• This release also contains several other corrections and minor enhancements
to the product.
15.2 DCPS Version 1.2 Fixes
This section describes problems that are fixed in DCPS Version 1.2.
15.2.1 Truncated Lines When A4 Page Is Printed Landscape
Beginning with Version V1.1A the ANSI translator used a modified definition of
the size of the printing area for an A4 page printed landscape. However, this new
definition sometimes caused lines to be abnormally truncated. This problem has
been fixed. See Section 16.1.2.
15.2.2 AppleTalk Printer Names with Multinational Characters
If an AppleTalk printer name includes multinational characters (for example,
accented characters), DCPS did not properly handle these names and could not
find the printer on the AppleTalk network. The characters supplied for the /ON
qualifer use the DECMCS character set. These characters had to be converted to
the Macintosh character set to be used on the AppleTalk network. With Version
1.2, this conversion now occurs.
When multinational characters are used, the printer name printed on the bottom
of separation pages may be printed in the wrong character set.
15.2.3 DELETE/ENTRY and ‘‘(DCc) Circuit connect failure’’
At apparently random times, it was possible for a PrintServer printer to display
the a ‘‘(DCc) Circuit connect failure’’ error and stop responding to print requests.
This problem occured as a result of a DELETE/ENTRY command if the job
number on the PrintServer printer was 100 or greater. DCPS now correctly
handles DELETE/ENTRY and no longer causes this error.
15.2.4 Speed of Printing of Certain File Types
Changes have be made to improve how files with variable length records are
handled by the symbiont. These changes can improve the speed at which these
files print.
15.2.5 Handling of Communications Problems on Serial Interconnect
In previous releases, there could be a delay of up to 4 minutes to free the
system resources associated with a serial device. This could occur when a
STOP/QUEUE/RESET command was issued when a job was printing, but a
communication problem had occurred. When such a delay occurred, the queue
could not be restarted soon after it had been stopped. Now when a communication
problem is detected, the system resources are freed more quickly, and a print
queue can be restarted soon after it is stopped.
15.2.6 DCPS$queuename_PID Logical Name and Startup Errors
With V1.1A, if a queue failed to start, the logical name DCPS$queuename_PID
would be left in the system logical name tables. This no longer occurs.
15–2 DCPS Version 1.2 Information