Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!crosfield!jc From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Printer Problems. Message-ID: <9912@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> Date: 8 May 91 13:38:31 GMT References: <7484@munnari.oz.au> <1240@teslab.lab.OZ> Reply-To: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) Followup-To: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.programmer Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom. Lines: 16 >In article <7484@munnari.oz.au> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au (Alex Krooglik) writes: >> Question 2: Why does AmigaDOS 1.3 give me the message, after I type >> 'copy * prt:' that 'The object is in use' when in fact >> nothing is hogging it. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG! >> I can use par: normally, but prt:, no go Joe. .... I had a similar problem when I tried to use a 1.2 printer driver under 1.3; They don't mix gracefully. Try copying the appropriate printer driver from the 1.3 distribution (I think they moved onto the extras disk?) and see if that fixes the problem. It did for me.. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Jerry Cullingford #include +44 442 230000 | ,-|-- | jc@crosfield.co.uk (was jc@cel.co.uk) or jc@cel.uucp x3203 | \_|__ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ \___/