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From: mark@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Mark Spankus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Printer problem with Windows and Novell
Keywords: printing garbage
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.014554.1651@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 01:45:54 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.133659.119488@rrz.uni-koeln.de> ro@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jochen Roderburg) writes:
>This is a cross-posting to the Windows and Novell Mailing lists and
>Newsgroups, so please apologize if you see it twice (or more).
>
>Joe Moore <CC19@SDSUMUS.bitnet> wrote in the WIN3 mailing list:
>>> I have a problem with the configuration of an HP LJII on a NOVELL
>>> network and Windows.  It seems to send the proper text and graphics
>>> to the printer, but either before or after (or both) the printout
>>> there is garbage.  Lots of garbage!!!!
>
>I was just about to post a similar question to these lists and
>newsgroups.
>We seem to have the same problem, but I have already managed to narrow
>the circumstances a bit: It happens only in Windows 386 enhanced mode,
>but with every printer that we like to use.
>
...

We were having problems very much like the ones you discribe, but they were
solved by adding more DOS file handles in config.sys, as well as having
loads of environment space ~1K and making sure the shell.cfg file contained
a 'file handles=60' line.  Hope this helps.
	-Mark

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