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- From: altman@cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman)
- Subject: Re: Can't print from DOS box under Novell/OS2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.222335.8372@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:23:35 GMT
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- Russell Cooke (rcooke@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- : I've struck a problem where if I try to print out something from a dos box,
- : nothing actually goes to any queue, unless I use PRN instead of LPT1/2/3.
- :
- : eg DIR > PRN works, DIR > LPT1 doesn't.
- :
- The problem occurs to everyone who uses [B]NETX to connect to the file
- server. As soon as the shell is loaded devices appear to disappear
- and subsequent printing to a device screws up the table of file handles.
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- The problem is in GA and the SP. It occurs with all shells from 3.1x to
- 3.31.
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- IBM knows about the problem. It is being handled by the Novell Netware
- group. Hopefully there will be some solutions soon. Or at least before
- 2.1 is released.
-
- I have not tested it will the 2.1 beta to see if the problem still exists.
-
- Could someone?
-
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