COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 stopped working

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The basic DOS command of COPY (run from a command window)
no longer works on a Win2k computer. We have one old DOS
based program not fully phased out yet that still relies
on DOS and need to print this way for a few months more.
A test to see if a printing problem exists in the OS or
the old software simply involves running the copy command,
such as: COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 from a C: prompt.

Only on 1 Win2k machine is this a problem, and it used to
work on this machine until recently. Any suggestions?
 
It appears someone has disconnected the default Windows
printer driver from the LPT1 port. Go to the
Start/Setting/Printers view, select the default printer,
right click and select Properties and move to the Port
tab. The checkbox for the LPT1 port needs to be selected
and the proper printer needs to be configured for that
port. My guess is one of these two conditions is not
correct.

Tom Lavedas
===========
 
Tom,

The printer drivers appear to be working fine. In fact,
the printer on the lpt1 port works fine in all Windows
applications as a printer. The printer is an Epson Dot
Matrix and in the Windows envrironment any Windows based
application prints to it with no problems using either the
proper Epson drivers or even the "Generic /Text Only"
drivers that I just created for testing purposes.

The printing problem is only in one old Dos program (which
is going away in a few months) that ports directly to
lpt1. So, that is why I was trying the simple Dos
command "Copy" to try to send a simple text string to the
printer. The Copy command returns the usual "1 file(s)
copied", however the printer never receives the data. For
more testing, in Dos mode, I can even make a directory and
then even Copy my sample text file to the new directory,
so that's why I believe the issue is somehow in how the
Dos command that ports to lpt1 is the problem.

I would be willing to reload something to fix this if need
be, I just need it fixed.

Steve



-----Original Message-----
It appears someone has disconnected the default Windows
printer driver from the LPT1 port. Go to the
Start/Setting/Printers view, select the default printer,
right click and select Properties and move to the Port
tab. The checkbox for the LPT1 port needs to be selected
and the proper printer needs to be configured for that
port. My guess is one of these two conditions is not
correct.

Tom Lavedas
===========
-----Original Message-----
The basic DOS command of COPY (run from a command window)
no longer works on a Win2k computer. We have one old DOS
based program not fully phased out yet that still relies
on DOS and need to print this way for a few months more.
A test to see if a printing problem exists in the OS or
the old software simply involves running the copy command,
such as: COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 from a C: prompt.

Only on 1 Win2k machine is this a problem, and it used to
work on this machine until recently. Any suggestions?




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Try this first

c:> net use lpt1: /delete

Ed

Tom,

The printer drivers appear to be working fine. In fact,
the printer on the lpt1 port works fine in all Windows
applications as a printer. The printer is an Epson Dot
Matrix and in the Windows envrironment any Windows based
application prints to it with no problems using either the
proper Epson drivers or even the "Generic /Text Only"
drivers that I just created for testing purposes.

The printing problem is only in one old Dos program (which
is going away in a few months) that ports directly to
lpt1. So, that is why I was trying the simple Dos
command "Copy" to try to send a simple text string to the
printer. The Copy command returns the usual "1 file(s)
copied", however the printer never receives the data. For
more testing, in Dos mode, I can even make a directory and
then even Copy my sample text file to the new directory,
so that's why I believe the issue is somehow in how the
Dos command that ports to lpt1 is the problem.

I would be willing to reload something to fix this if need
be, I just need it fixed.

Steve



-----Original Message-----
It appears someone has disconnected the default Windows
printer driver from the LPT1 port. Go to the
Start/Setting/Printers view, select the default printer,
right click and select Properties and move to the Port
tab. The checkbox for the LPT1 port needs to be selected
and the proper printer needs to be configured for that
port. My guess is one of these two conditions is not
correct.

Tom Lavedas
===========
-----Original Message-----
The basic DOS command of COPY (run from a command window)
no longer works on a Win2k computer. We have one old DOS
based program not fully phased out yet that still relies
on DOS and need to print this way for a few months more.
A test to see if a printing problem exists in the OS or
the old software simply involves running the copy command,
such as: COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 from a C: prompt.

Only on 1 Win2k machine is this a problem, and it used to
work on this machine until recently. Any suggestions?




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Thanks Ed.

By the way, this is a command I'm not familiar with. What
does it do?

Steve
-----Original Message-----
Try this first

c:> net use lpt1: /delete

Ed

Tom,

The printer drivers appear to be working fine. In fact,
the printer on the lpt1 port works fine in all Windows
applications as a printer. The printer is an Epson Dot
Matrix and in the Windows envrironment any Windows based
application prints to it with no problems using either the
proper Epson drivers or even the "Generic /Text Only"
drivers that I just created for testing purposes.

The printing problem is only in one old Dos program (which
is going away in a few months) that ports directly to
lpt1. So, that is why I was trying the simple Dos
command "Copy" to try to send a simple text string to the
printer. The Copy command returns the usual "1 file(s)
copied", however the printer never receives the data. For
more testing, in Dos mode, I can even make a directory and
then even Copy my sample text file to the new directory,
so that's why I believe the issue is somehow in how the
Dos command that ports to lpt1 is the problem.

I would be willing to reload something to fix this if need
be, I just need it fixed.

Steve



-----Original Message-----
It appears someone has disconnected the default Windows
printer driver from the LPT1 port. Go to the
Start/Setting/Printers view, select the default printer,
right click and select Properties and move to the Port
tab. The checkbox for the LPT1 port needs to be selected
and the proper printer needs to be configured for that
port. My guess is one of these two conditions is not
correct.

Tom Lavedas
===========

-----Original Message-----
The basic DOS command of COPY (run from a command window)
no longer works on a Win2k computer. We have one old DOS
based program not fully phased out yet that still relies
on DOS and need to print this way for a few months more.
A test to see if a printing problem exists in the OS or
the old software simply involves running the copy
command,
such as: COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 from a C: prompt.

Only on 1 Win2k machine is this a problem, and it used to
work on this machine until recently. Any suggestions?




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When I entered "net use lpt1: /delete", I get "The network
connection could not be found".

I tried this command on both the affected computer and
mine (also a Win2k machine) and get the same response.

By the way, just for fun I entered "net use" on both the
computer with the problem and a working computer (mine!)
and I get a list of only the networked computers that are
mapped and no listing of any ports such as lpt1.

-----Original Message-----
Try this first

c:> net use lpt1: /delete

Ed

Tom,

The printer drivers appear to be working fine. In fact,
the printer on the lpt1 port works fine in all Windows
applications as a printer. The printer is an Epson Dot
Matrix and in the Windows envrironment any Windows based
application prints to it with no problems using either the
proper Epson drivers or even the "Generic /Text Only"
drivers that I just created for testing purposes.

The printing problem is only in one old Dos program (which
is going away in a few months) that ports directly to
lpt1. So, that is why I was trying the simple Dos
command "Copy" to try to send a simple text string to the
printer. The Copy command returns the usual "1 file(s)
copied", however the printer never receives the data. For
more testing, in Dos mode, I can even make a directory and
then even Copy my sample text file to the new directory,
so that's why I believe the issue is somehow in how the
Dos command that ports to lpt1 is the problem.

I would be willing to reload something to fix this if need
be, I just need it fixed.

Steve



-----Original Message-----
It appears someone has disconnected the default Windows
printer driver from the LPT1 port. Go to the
Start/Setting/Printers view, select the default printer,
right click and select Properties and move to the Port
tab. The checkbox for the LPT1 port needs to be selected
and the proper printer needs to be configured for that
port. My guess is one of these two conditions is not
correct.

Tom Lavedas
===========

-----Original Message-----
The basic DOS command of COPY (run from a command window)
no longer works on a Win2k computer. We have one old DOS
based program not fully phased out yet that still relies
on DOS and need to print this way for a few months more.
A test to see if a printing problem exists in the OS or
the old software simply involves running the copy
command,
such as: COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 from a C: prompt.

Only on 1 Win2k machine is this a problem, and it used to
work on this machine until recently. Any suggestions?




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Steve_H said:
Thanks Ed.

By the way, this is a command I'm not familiar with. What
does it do?
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When in doubt, type the command with a "/?":

net /?
net use /?

/Al
Steve
-----Original Message-----
Try this first

c:> net use lpt1: /delete

Ed

Tom,

The printer drivers appear to be working fine. In fact,
the printer on the lpt1 port works fine in all Windows
applications as a printer. The printer is an Epson Dot
Matrix and in the Windows envrironment any Windows based
application prints to it with no problems using either the
proper Epson drivers or even the "Generic /Text Only"
drivers that I just created for testing purposes.

The printing problem is only in one old Dos program (which
is going away in a few months) that ports directly to
lpt1. So, that is why I was trying the simple Dos
command "Copy" to try to send a simple text string to the
printer. The Copy command returns the usual "1 file(s)
copied", however the printer never receives the data. For
more testing, in Dos mode, I can even make a directory and
then even Copy my sample text file to the new directory,
so that's why I believe the issue is somehow in how the
Dos command that ports to lpt1 is the problem.

I would be willing to reload something to fix this if need
be, I just need it fixed.

Steve




-----Original Message-----
It appears someone has disconnected the default Windows
printer driver from the LPT1 port. Go to the
Start/Setting/Printers view, select the default printer,
right click and select Properties and move to the Port
tab. The checkbox for the LPT1 port needs to be selected
and the proper printer needs to be configured for that
port. My guess is one of these two conditions is not
correct.

Tom Lavedas
===========

-----Original Message-----
The basic DOS command of COPY (run from a command
window)
no longer works on a Win2k computer. We have one old DOS
based program not fully phased out yet that still relies
on DOS and need to print this way for a few months
more.
A test to see if a printing problem exists in the OS or
the old software simply involves running the copy
command,
such as: COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 from a C: prompt.

Only on 1 Win2k machine is this a problem, and it used
to
work on this machine until recently. Any suggestions?




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If you DO find yourself in the situation where a old program still needs to
be run and you cannot phase it out (for whatever reason), Microsoft Virtual
PC would be a good and inexpensive tool to do this. You simply image the
original program/OS into a Virtual PC's virtual hard drive, and then you
install and run Virtual PC on any modern, supported OS. This allows you to
run that virtual hard drive (with its OS and DOS program) as-is -- along
side your new OS and PC.

It's pretty amazing to see Win98, NT4, W2K, WXP, and WS03 all running at the
same time on the same physical machine...

--
//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
//
The basic DOS command of COPY (run from a command window)
no longer works on a Win2k computer. We have one old DOS
based program not fully phased out yet that still relies
on DOS and need to print this way for a few months more.
A test to see if a printing problem exists in the OS or
the old software simply involves running the copy command,
such as: COPY [sample.txt] LPT1 from a C: prompt.

Only on 1 Win2k machine is this a problem, and it used to
work on this machine until recently. Any suggestions?
 
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