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From: CCMK@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Mark Kosten - Computer Centre, La Trobe Uni.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help! OS/2 1.3 incompatible with 1.21 print queues?
Message-ID: <5136@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 10 Mar 91 09:06:15 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University
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Help!

I previously had plain OS/2 1.2 with the usual print queues. I then
installed PCSA for OS/2 1.1 (a DECnet network enorinment), which comes
with Lan Manager 2.0.  The installation also installed version 1.21 of
the print manager/spooler, etc.  Everything continued to work, with my
print programs all coming from the lanman directory.

I have just installed OS/2 1.3.  It installed okay (apart from
ignoring all the changes to config.sys from other previously installed
software), except my printing programs are all still coming from
lanman, which is still at 1.21.  I now have no printing!  There seems
to be some incompatiblity b/w 1.3 and 1.21, as when I install print
drivers the print manager does not see them so there is a queue but no
printers!  The new print routines are all there, but never accessed
since I am working off Lan Manager all the time (as a workstation).

Has anybody any ideas?  I find Lan Manager to be a pain in my
environment where I don't share my resources, but I need it to get at
other's resources, so I cannot get rid of it.  I have been thinking
about starting over completely with a fresh disk but that will be
horrific given all my installed junk.  Plus who knows whether that
will work.

I like 1.3 overall though, much better looking and closer to Windows
3. Otherwise, memory consumption seems about the same.

Please either email or post, or carrier-pidgeon, or esp...

Mark Kosten