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From: rnicovic@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ralph Nicovich)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: WordPerfect net blues
Message-ID: <6954@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 11 Jan 89 23:53:44 GMT
References: <11000005@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: rnicovic@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ralph Nicovich)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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We have Word Perfect 5.0 on our network and it will print
properly to the network printer. I believe the printer
must be installed as though it was LPT1 on the local workstation.
It appears that when the printer is installed as com1: and then
redirected to the server the file is not closed properly.
Also there is a device driver called PRTSC that can be installed
via your autoexec.bat file. This driver watches for a ctrl-alt-prtsc
and then will issue the EOF when you hit this keystroke. It is
different for various keyboards and does not work for all applications
although it does work with Word Perfect. There is a hitch since WordPerfect
spools the file itself and allows you to go on and edit a different file.
If you do this crtl-alt-prtsc before WP is done you may only get
half the file out on the printer.