Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au!a_maydwell From: a_maydwell@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc Subject: Re: Word V5.0 Message-ID: <1990Sep23.235436.2310@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> Date: 23 Sep 90 15:54:36 GMT References: <3692@gara.une.oz.au> Organization: University of Western Australia Lines: 25 Try MODE LPT1:,,P ITS PROBABLY DUE TO A RETRY TIMING PROBLEM T MAYDWELL WA CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC In article <3692@gara.une.oz.au>, mwirth@gara.une.oz.au (Michael A. Wirth) writes: > I'm having problems with Microsoft Word V5.0 and Windows 3.0, in that > I'm running two 286's through a data transfer switch. Now while other > applications such as Harvard graphics and MS-Works prints Ok, both > MS-Word and Windows(write) applications complain that the printer > is not ready, yet when I bypass the data switch everything is ok. > Has anyone else experienced such problems, got any ideas?? > Thanks Michael > > ***************************************************************** > Michael Andrew Wirth > Technical Advisor Computing Studies > Duval College > University of New England _--_|\ > Armidale N.S.W 2351 / \ > A U S T R A L I A. \_.--._/ > v > FTP: (ftp 129.180.1.1) > ARPA: mwirth@gara.une.oz.au@uunet.uu.net > ACSnet: mwirth@gara.une.oz Phone: (067) 73-2670 (term) > Internet: mwirth@gara.une.oz.au (075) 35-0775 (home) > *****************************************************************