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- From: chesley@apple.com (Harry R. Chesley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Serial Toolkit -- HELP!
- Message-ID: <33994@goofy.apple.COM>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 20:26:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec9.194650.19992@bnr.ca>
- Sender: usenet@goofy.apple.COM
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Dec9.194650.19992@bnr.ca> Shane W., writes:
- >I've been using the Serial Toolkit by Harry Chesley (sp?) for a while,
- and I've
- >recently noticed a horrific bug - it is impossible to use the printer
- port!
- >Whenever I try to configure the port, I receive a message back that
- "OpenDriver
- >failed". Anyone else have this problem? Any fixes? If anyone may have
- XCMDs
- >for using the printer port ONLY for serial communications, post - it is
- very
- >important. Thanx in advance.
-
- A very early version of the Toolkit had a bug that prevented the printer
- port from being used. That was fixed long long ago. The most recent
- version is 2.6.
-
- Also, as another message pointed out, if you have AppleTalk turned on, it
- snarfs the printer port and doesn't let anyone else open it.
-