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Hello Xywrite People,
I have a printer problem,
different from those i've had in the past. My past problems involved not being
able to hook up my then-new computer with a printer that would work with
Xywrite and still show italics and bold. So i gave up, and hauled out
my roughly 10-year-old printer and equally old computer that used to work
beautifully together. So I have been writing on a my newer computer (with the
horrible Millennium Windows program), and when I want to print out, I
transfer files from the new computer's hard drive to a disk, put disk in old
computer, and print out. It works--it's slow, there's some paper uptake
problems, but I printed out a whole manuscript on it several times
now.
My Xywrite
is III Plus Version 3.54; the old computer with printer is so old it has
what I believe is the original, very primitive Windows program.
My current
problem is that when I try to print out, it says "printer error" and won't
print. I have noticed a couple things that I *think* are different from the
times it works well.
--when the initial C: prompt comes on (i.e., after i get out of Windows), it
reads:
C:\>pause. I could be wrong, but I
don't recall seeing "pause" before, and i cannot get rid of it.
--then i type in "editor," and go to A:, call up the file, try to print,
get "printer error." So I store the file and type "quit" to get out of editor
altogether, and the command field reads: "files open," do I want to "quit
anyway, yes or no." Well, there are no files open, and I think this is related
to the false "pause." (And, btw, all this occurs whether i try to print
out in A: or C:; whether the command is "ty" or "type"; and whether
I answer yes or no when it asks if I want to quit
anyway.)
--if i do Control F10 to see what's on the screens, at the bottom of the
column with the numbers 1 through 9 is another, labeled "P C:\type" (or a: or
something--but always with a "P.")
--if i go into the c: directory, it shows a "print" file. I can erase
it, but that has no effect on my ability to print out.
So it seems to me that something is stuck.
I've pressed all sorts of buttons--including the "pause/break" on the keyboard,
the number-lock button. I've unplugged, replugged computer, started up numerous
times, but nothing seems to work.
Does anybody have an idea as to what can be going on? I hope there's a simple
way to get out of this--my tech know-how is about as primitive as my
computer/printer set up.
(At
a later date, I'll probably want to ask you all about a printer that works
with xywrite (italics required) and Windows. But this is something i need
to turn into the publisher soon.)
Many, many thanks in advance,
Leslie
Savan
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