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Article #7889re: Printing from Win3 on Novell
From: Tom Laughner
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 17:55
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1991 17:55
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In article <1815@batman.dc.luth.se> Ulf.Ruthberg@dc.luth.se (Ulf Ruthberg) writes: >If, running the Net-installed Win3 >from my DOS 4.01 machine, Ethernet, I print out something from any Windows-appl. >(Write, Word, Excel etc.) it works just fine. >But, if I move myself to another machine, DOS 3.30 and Token Ring, >doing the same things, >I get about 50k (various) of garbage, before and after my real textprint. >Seems to be the same on both printertypes. > >I've tried different versions of net3, ipx, with and without DXM*.* >and so on. > We were having the same problem here while running SITELOCK or the Norton anti-virus. The solution was to go into WIN.INI and change the port from LPT1: to LPT1.PRN:. Tom Laughner Consultant/Analyst
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