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
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-----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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