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- From: heidt@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Michael F. Heidt)
- Subject: Re: WINOS2 does not use LPRMON
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.155246.19176@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
- References: <ignacij.723487359@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> <Bz07Fu.BAo@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Dec10.062111.20160@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:52:46 GMT
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- I found a couple of things that could make winos2 not talk to lprmon.
- First, you must be sure that the windows print spooler is off. Tell the
- printer driver to talk directly to the port. The port that lprmon 'watches'
- should be a non-real port. I us lpt3: which my machine doesn't actually
- have.
- Second, if your printer is a postscript printer you have a problem. The
- windows drivers put a control-d at the beginning and end of the postscript
- file. Many postscript printers, especially Apple laserwriters, don't like
- this. Under windos 3.1 there is a way to tell the system not to do it. Under
- winos2 I'm not so sure there is. Try installing the driver for encapsulated
- postscript. The symptom of this problem is that the file is sent to the
- printer, the activity light blinks, or whatever the printer does do indicate
- busy, but nothing is ever printed. The conents of the file are ignored.
-
- Mike Heidt
- heidt@aio.jsc.nasa.gov
-