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I saw Harry's message
(below) after I posted the verbatim autoexec.bat and config.sys
files. Does your advice still apply? Should I just rename the autoexec.bat file?
And what does it mean exactly to rename it "at DOS"? Do I call up the C:
directory and write REN AUTOEXEC.BAT AUTOEXEC.SAV in the command field, then put
the cursor on AUTOEXEC.BAT, and hit F9? (In other words, is the C: directory one
and the same as DOS and/or the "root directory"? )
You also suggested looking at the
autoexec.bat file and changing it. But i wouldn't know have a clue as to what to
do. Perhaps you'll see something wrong in that file now that I've posted
it.
ALso, I tried your last suggestion,
to look on the first boot-up screen for something like "Hit del to enter CMOS,"
but didn't find anything like that (unless it went by too fast).
Again, many
thanks...Leslie
----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: printer problems
{again}
--I turn on the
computer and it goes through its initial, fast DOS-looking startup (I don't
know the name for this), and then this shows up: C:\>pause, and right
below that, it reads: "press any key to continue." In other words, the C:
prompt with "pause" turns up immediately, before I've touched any key other
than the button to turn on the computer. If my memory serves, this never
happened before in all the years I've used this.
It's
undoubtedly something in your autoexec.bat file. Take a look at that, and
change it. If you can't use Xy to edit it, use EDIT, which comes with DOS and
Windows 3.1 Or even simpler, at DOS rename it:
REN AUTOEXEC.BAT
AUTOEXEC.SAV
(Caps don't matter.)
Then restart your computer.
Should be no problem.
--Next, I
"press any key" and I get Windows' "Start-up" window. Using the keyboard
(rather than a mouse, which I don't have for this setup), I then hit:
Alt F (for file); X (for exit Windows), and Enter (for OK to "This will end
your Windows session."
I never used Win 3.1 much, but
I'm fairly sure you don't need to do that. You only need to get a DOS box (C:
prompt) within Windows.
--Normally at this point, I call up a file from the disk on A: (could also
do it from C:), and I write out "ty" or "type" and the printing begins.
However, for the last few days, it reads "printer error" and simply won't
print.
Try printing from DOS itself, using either the
PRINT command or COPY LPT1
If you can, there should be
no problem (other than some setting in Xy) in printing from Xy. At least you
can file back on using TYF in Xy, then printing the file produced (by default,
FO.TMP) from DOS per above. If you can't print from DOS, the problem has
nothing to do with Xy but with how the computer is trying to talk to the
printer (check, e.g., cables).
And as I said, the other new weird thing is that when I try to
quit, either in C: or A:, it insists that I have a file open when I don't.
That's apparently a separate, and minor,
problem.
I
hope I described it a little better this time.
Yes.
It's very likely your autoexec.bat file.
It just seems as if something is stuck. Is there perhaps a directory
or file I need to delete? Should I unplug and replug the entire works?
Any help is very much appreciated, as I need to start making printouts this
week. Thanks.
Another thing it could (conceivably) be
is your CMOS setting, which you can change by hitting some key or other on
boot-up (very early in the process). There should be some notice on the very
first boot-up screen, like "Hit del to enter CMOS."
Good
luck.
Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx
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