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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
- Subject: Re: LPT1 CONFLICT SYS 1799
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.064539.21578@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <turner.723699736@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> <3375@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:45:39 GMT
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- In article <3375@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM> gkendall@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Guy Kendall) writes:
- >In article <turner.723699736@s1.elec.uq.oz.au> turner@elec.uq.oz.au (Michael Turner) writes:
- >>I have just tried using Protel Traxedit for the first time
- >>since I installed the CSD. OS/2 now gives me a message to
- >>say that the printer port is in use by some other program.
- >>I have made sure that no other program is running but every
- >>time it checks the dongle I get the conflict message.
- >>Has anyone any idea why I am now getting this conflict.
- >
- >I have a very similar problem. I am trying to run Laplink 4.0 in a DOS
- >window. When I try and run it it says that LPT1 is in use by another task.
- >I tried disabling LPT1 in Laplink, but it still checks that port. I don't
- >even have a printer hooked up! Though I used to but can't figure out how
- >to disable it. If someone can tell us how to get LPT1 back, I think we'll
- >both be happy.
- >
- >Has anyone been successful using Laplink under OS/2?
-
- I solved all the annoying LPT1 port is in use messages by replacing the
- VLPT.SYS driver from the service pack with the one that shipped in the
- GA release. Since then, I have never seen this EXTREMELY frustrating
- message and Laplink works, and all the games work that previously used to
- try to look at LPT1 for a sound device (Alone in the Dark) etc.
-
- I got this little tidit from an earlier post. Do it, you'll be happy.
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