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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: WordPerfect net blues
Message-ID: <7459@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Jan 89 05:33:06 GMT
References: <11000005@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <6954@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <6954@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> rnicovic@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ralph Nicovich) writes:
>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.

If you have the network version of WP it will close each job properly
so the server will despool it, and it will work for LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3.

As another message mentioned you can sometimes fool non-network programs by
telling them to output to a disk file instead of a device, but give a filename
of LPT1 (or LPT2 or LPT3).  Dos will happily write to the device instead
(unless the application checks) and when the application closes the output
stream the network will despool the output.

Now, considering that this is a solved problem, why doesn't it work
with VP/IX?

Les Mikesell