Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsm!cbnewsk!alu
From: alu@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (Alan Lustiger)
Subject: Print Redirection in PC/TCP and Windows 3.0
Organization: AT&T Engineering Research Center
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1991 19:14:48 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.191448.661@cbnewsk.att.com>
Sender: alu@cbnewsk.att.com (Alan Lustiger)
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PC-TCP has the capability of doing print redirection to a network
printer by adding a memory-resident program. This TSR intercepts
all printer output and spools it; then, when either the application
is exited or the user types in CTRL-SHIFT-SHIFT the contents
of the spool files get sent to the printer program of choice
(lpr or whatever.)

Under Windows 3.0, this seems flaky. On my 386/20 the application
that needs to be exited is Windows itself (not just Windows Write,
for example, although it looks like something happens when I exit
the specific Windows app.) If I go into a DOS window and then
hit CTRL-SHIFT-SHIFT the job will usually print then, although
I've had errors then too.

On some 386SX machines here, it doesn't work under Windows at all
using a DOS window; Windows must be exited.

I'm running QEMM on all machines, 4DOS on my 386/20. 

Any ideas of what to try? Any way to tell Windows not to trap
CTRL-SHIFT-SHIFT so I don't have to go to a DOS Window? Any
way to do automatic printing without going through application
exiting or hotkeys? Any future enhancements coming? Any third-
party packages I should be using instead? Anybody got lots of
money to send me free?

Thanks.

		-Alan.
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               		Alan Lustiger
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