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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: OpenDriver("\p.BOut, &refNum")
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.175839.24380@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 17:58:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.161708.18727@IRO.UMontreal.CA> dubuc@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Martin Dubuc) writes:
>I am trying to open the device driver of the printer serial port. The actual
>call is OpenDriver("\p.BOut", &refNum). The call to this routine returns
>error -98 (portNotConfig? it's an AppleTalk error!). If I open the serial 
>communication port the same way, there are no problems. What's wrong?

Try turning AppleTalk off.


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