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From: reh@ccd700.UUCP (reh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: WordPerfect net blues
Summary: Control-Alt-keypad"*"  will send EOF to print server on PCNET, T.R.
Message-ID: <404@ccd700.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 18:25:51 GMT
References: <11000005@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Ford CCD Dearborn, Mich.
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In article <11000005@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, fleming@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 	I have a problem with my networks (PC LAN and Token Ring)
> 	being able to properly handle WordPerfect when it prints
> 	a document to the server's printer.  When I give the print
> 	command to the program, the file immediatly spools to the
> 	server, but will not print until I exit all the way out of
> 	WP to DOS.
> 	So, what's the secret?  How do I send an EOF to the server?
> 	Declan J. Fleming
> 	U of Ill.

Just hold down Control and Alt and hit the "*" on the numeric keypad
to tell the server that the print job should be closed and printed.
WP opens LPT1 but does not close it till you exit to DOS, so the
print server cannot tell if the job is done until you exit or 
hit the Control-Alt-keypad*.

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