Printing stops after 6 pages

Printing stops after 6 pages

[Denny Schierz]

hi,

we using dosemu 1.3.0 with direct printing. The problem is, if we
printing more than six pages, the printer stops. I can't find any
solution for that :-/ 

any hinds?

cu denny

Re: Printing stops after 6 pages

[Stas Sergeev]

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Hello.

Denny Schierz wrote:
> we using dosemu 1.3.0 with direct printing. The problem is, if we
> printing more than six pages, the printer stops. I can't find any
> solution for that :-/ 
> any hinds?
Try -D9+p log, maybe that will
shed some light on a problem.
But even at a first glance there
seem to be a memory leak in a
printer code, which is probably
responsible for your problem. Try
the attached patch.

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--- src/base/dev/misc/lpt.c	Sun Jan 18 00:30:29 2004
+++ src/base/dev/misc/lpt.c	Mon Mar 15 21:04:07 2004
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@
     if (pipe == NULL)
       error("system(\"%s\") in lpt.c failed, cannot print!\
   Command returned error %s\n", cmdbuf, strerror(errno));
+    free(cmdbuf);
 
     bufsize = ftell(lpt[prnum].file);
     buf = malloc(bufsize);

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