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serial printer problems

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From: Michael Paull
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:42
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Has anyone experienced any problems using DTR control with serial printers
in Windows 3.1 .. The setup we have is as follows ;

			* Apple LaserWriter ( running as a HP )

			* Standard PC Comm port config as Com 1

Pinouts of our serial cable are ;

		2 & 3 Crossed
		4 & 5 crossed
		6 & 20 crossed
		7 straight through

This cable works fine under DOS, when trying to print through windows how-
ever, windows responds with "printer not ready - retry or cancel"

And Windows has been configured for hardware handshaking, so there should be
no reason why it works under dos and not windows. Does anyone know if there
is a bug with relation to this setup, and if so, is there a bug patch? 
Or, have we left something out of our cable ??

Any help appreciated.

			Mike

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