In comp.windows.x damijan wrote:
> Hi!

> I have problem with pass-through printing with xterm.
> I can print from application running server SCO ODT 5.0.7 in xterm
> window on linux RH clients default printer.

> It works fine. The problem is that printing on my localy attached
> printer on RH client starts only after I close the connection to SCO ODT
> server. I use standard pass-through print esc. seq. (esc[4i esc[5i) on
> server to switch xterm in/out print mode.

man xterm

printerAutoClose (class PrinterAutoClose)
If ``true'', xterm will close the printer (a pipe) when the
application switches the printer offline with a Media Copy com-
mand. The default is ``false.''

If the pipe isn't closed, the last buffer is still in memory.

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Thomas Dickey wrote:
> In comp.windows.x damijan wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>
>
>>I have problem with pass-through printing with xterm.
>>I can print from application running server SCO ODT 5.0.7 in xterm
>>window on linux RH clients default printer.
>
>
>>It works fine. The problem is that printing on my localy attached
>>printer on RH client starts only after I close the connection to SCO ODT
>>server. I use standard pass-through print esc. seq. (esc[4i esc[5i) on
>>server to switch xterm in/out print mode.
>
>
> man xterm
>
> printerAutoClose (class PrinterAutoClose)
> If ``true'', xterm will close the printer (a pipe) when the
> application switches the printer offline with a Media Copy com-
> mand. The default is ``false.''
>
> If the pipe isn't closed, the last buffer is still in memory.
>

It works now! Thank you very much,

Damijan