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Re: rprinter troubles

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From: niels
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 00:00
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In article <andrysDnHFwF.2MK@netcom.com>, <andrys@netcom.com> writes:

> In article <4g6ht3$12a@tofu.alt.net>, Larry <ram@sunrise.alpinet.net> wrote:
> 
> >Unfortunately Rprinter does not work well under Windows.  If you must
> >run a remote printer from a workstation with Windows, let me suggest
> >IQ's product that replaces rprinter.  It works well with 3.11 under
> >Netware and a thirty day eval copy is free.
> 
> Not true.  I have it on several networks, one that has 8 remote printers,
> each with about 7 people sharing them.  Both Netware 3.11 and 3.12. But even
> for 3.12 I'm using NETX instead of VLM, as friends have reported problems
> under windows with VLMs when doing rprinter (which I use mainly for the many
> customized DOS engineering and accounting apps.  I use Rprinter under both
> win 3.1 and win3.11 with Netware without any problems whatsoever.  The
> clients spend about 80% of their time in Windows but go to DOS programs
> (usually within Windows) while the mem-hungry autocad type programs if
> not Windows-based are run outside of Windows.
> 
> Get the latest Netware rprinter/pserver files etc.
> 

loading rprinter in low memory area with the polled mode option could also help 
you !

rprinter number pserver -p !
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Subject: Re: rprinter troubles
Date: 1996/03/03
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