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- From: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Giles Todd)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!rundart.demon.co.uk!gt
- Subject: emTeX & HP laserjet II
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- References: <RONNOW.92Jul17105830@mao.iesd.auc.dk>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:17:17 +0000
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- In article <RONNOW.92Jul17105830@mao.iesd.auc.dk> ronnow@iesd.auc.dk writes:
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- >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?"
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- You need to tell MS-DOS to use infinite timeouts on the parallel port.
- The following line in my autoexec.bat works for me:
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- c:\dos\mode lpt1:,,p
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- I remember answering this here before - one for the FAQ perhaps?
-
- Giles.
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