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From: lhoward@esunix.UUCP (Larry Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Parallel port troubles.
Keywords: Parallel port, printers, strangeness
Message-ID: <2230@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 15:49:08 GMT
Organization: The Magic Kingdom of Electronics
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I hope someone can help me with this, since I can't figure it out...

Lately, whenever I wish to print a file, I get an error.  Depending on
the software being used, it either states that it can't communicate with
the printer, or it just dies.

Here's the weired part, if I use the copy command, and send the text
file to par: it will work, but if I send the same file to prt: it won't.
WordPerfect will work normally, but Pen Pall, Excellence!, MaxiPlan,
etc. give me error messages.

Any ideas?

Larry Howard

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