JetDirect and HP-UX 11: no progress indicator?

[Mark Landin]

I am using JetDirect version E.10.34 on HP-UX 11i. I just noticed that unlike on earlier versions of JetDirect, that I don't get a progress indicator bar to show me the print job getting transferred to the networked printer. I used to have this on 10 and in some cases it's very handy.

Is there a way to turn this back on?

[Steve Steel]

Hi


The scripts all have a man page loaded with the HPPI/Jetdirect software

Add /opt/hpnpl/man to MANPATH and then do man of a script like

man net_ljx000

Look for jobmonitor options.

Then you can alter the printer script.

Steve Steel

[Mark Landin]

Steve,

Thanks for the tip. I have now looked at the man page for net_ljcolor and I don't see any reference to jobmonitor options. Further, there is no string "monitor" in the actual net_ljcolor script.

I also looked through the hpnp.model script (version 1.1.1.1, 10/15/2001) in /opt/hpnpl/sh. It has a short section referencing job monitoring, and sets a couple of variables:

dsplayfile="$HPNP/etc/hpnpdisplay"
XJETMON=$HPNPBIN/xjjm

I have neither of those files on my system. I guess the whole job monitor functionality has been removed, which really sucks. Whom do I call to lodge a complaint?

[Steve Steel]

Hi

On the jetdirect bin directory is hpnpadmin with a manpage

try

hpnpadmin -bfs printer

Will give a lot of data and just the -s will show what the printer is doing.

Steve