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- From: imacauslan@ucsd.edu (Ian Macauslan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: LPT2: Bug in OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1ifsisINN3s4@network.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 00:13:16 GMT
- Organization: IR/PS at UC San Diego
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- Despite (unhelpful) calls to OS/2 tech. support, I have a real strange problem
- -- any print job sent to lpt2: takes FOREVER to print under OS/2 -- like 3
- hours to print a half-page of text! Yet it DOES print eventually. Looking at
- the LED's on my printer, it looks like OS/2 is sending a very small amount of
- data about every minute or so.
-
- This, despite years of NO such problem when I was a DOS user (including
- Windows). Indeed, if I reboot ("dual-booting") back to being a real DOS
- machine, lpt2: works perfectly, as it always has.
-
- My set up is: Zenith 386/25 (8 MB RAM), PostScript printer on lpt1:, HP DeskJet
- on lpt2.. I have installed the service pak.
-
- My initial thought was to disable the print spooler. No discernable effect.
- Then I thought the print driver (since one of my printers is a DeskJet) -- also
- no effect. Finally, I switched the printers (changing the printer drivers
- accordingly, of course) and even tried an Epson LQ-850 on lpt2: -- and had
- the same problem, regardless of what device wa s connected to lpt2:.
-
- I have also verified the problem exists, whether I'm printing from an OS/2
- application, WIN-OS2, or an OS2 DOS session.
-
- Any ideas? If I can't resolve this, Microsoft will be glad it got one
- of its long-time Windows 3.1 users back again.
-
- I
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