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In article <RONNOW.92Jul17105830@mao.iesd.auc.dk> ronnow@iesd.auc.dk writes:

>I'm trying to print my tex documents on a "HP laserjet II p" but it
>wont work !? I'm using dvidrv from the emTeX package (sorry, don't
>remember the version, but pretty new, I guess). When i print it works
>the first time (sometimes), but if I try again it reports an error and
>nothing happens (well, actually it has printed out something even it had
>reporyted an error, STRANGE!). 
>I have tried a lot of options but none seems to solve the problem.
>
>If you know something that maybe will help me then I will be glad if
>you mail me!
>
>BTW, the error is (mostly) "... on PRN, disk full?"

You need to tell MS-DOS to use infinite timeouts on the parallel port. 
The following line in my autoexec.bat works for me:

c:\dos\mode lpt1:,,p

I remember answering this here before - one for the FAQ perhaps?

Giles.
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