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Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 15:39:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Lane <glane@qualcomm.com>
To: davewarner@globalone.net
Cc: LightWave Mailing List <lightwave@webcom.com>
Subject: Re: Pass Through - NOT
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On Wed, 24 May 1995 davewarner@globalone.net wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 1995, Bunnell, John M. wrote:
>
> > I was told by very reliable sources that the dongle for 4.0 was a pass
> > through and I would have no problem with my printer. Not so. My print
> > manager always errors out when I have the dongle on and want to print,
> > remove the dongle and viola, it prints.
>
> Geez, you mean NewTek STILL hasn't worked out the dongle problems even
> with the PC version of LightWave?? I can't even begin to tell you what a
> pain in the ass the LW 3.5 Standalone dongle is...it doesn't pass through
> correctly and it sometimes just decides not to work anymore when I have
> it attached to a switchbox.
>
> If NewTek is gonna force people to use a dongle with their program, then
> the LEAST they can do is make sure that it's going to work properly and
> not affect other aspects the computer's use!
Just out of curiosity, are you guys using both parallel ports? (0x378 and
0x278). That way you could use one for the dongle and the other for the
printer, and you wouldn't have to remove the dongle to print.
George Lane
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