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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Possible bug in MSDOS for 1000SL
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <5375@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 2 Feb 89 17:20:32 GMT
References: <446@trwind.UUCP> <5371@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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In article <5371@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske) writes:
> In article <446@trwind.UUCP>, bgun@trwind.UUCP (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> > 
> > I have discovered what I think is a bug in MSDOS for the 1000SL.
> ....
> >    Any mode command involving LPT: results in the machine
> >    hanging. Only a reset will free it.
> 
> Shouldn't that be LPT1 or LPT2 (or else PRN:)?  Or was this a typo in
> your posting?  I'll try it when I get home to my 1000SL tonight,
> though.

OK, I tried it, and I see what you mean.  I tried lots of variations of
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, but it always stalled.  The only
thing I can think of is that it wants a printer driver file (the
"booklet" explaining the DOS commands makes mention, under MODE LFOFF,
of a Lpdrvr.sys file, which isn't on any of the disks).   There are
some printer drivers scattered around on the disks, but they all start
with "DM", so I assume they're tailored to work with Deskmate.  I looked
quickly in the DOS book I bought at a bookstore, but it looked like the
MODE LPTn stuff should be pretty straightforward.

Maybe somebody from Tandy has come clues.
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