Re: Printing With III (XYWRITE digest 2815)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> For the record, here's the printer-feed line from my Xy3 "startup.int":
>
> DO NET USE LPT1 \\voyager\ed_8k1 /YES
>
> ...with "voyager" as the network drive name, "ed_8k1" as the printer
> name, and "YES" (I believe) means "persistent".
Actually, you only need to run the net use command once, and from a
cmd prompt. And the final command should be
 /PERSISTENT:YES
That's it. Unless you reinstall Windows, it should take and hold
forever. Then you have to assign your Xy printer to lpt1, but as I
haven't used III in ages, I don't recall how that's done. In Xy 4,
it's in the PickPrinter table of settings.dfl (or startup.int if
you're using Carl's portable.int setup).
> Having said that, I should probably also include for the sake of
> completeness (though it my never have a bearing on anyone else's
> situation): I haven't been able to (or needed to, really) print from
> XyWrite for a long time (several years). I'm not too clear on the
> details as to why, but whenever the printers get switched to a different
> drive (which happens pretty often) I'm not able to simply change the
> drive name it Startup. Our IT dept needs to "release" something on the
> system that will then allow me to re-attach to a different drive. The
> real problem lies in the fact that I'm now the only one left who uses Xy
> in any "official" way, coupled with the fact that there are no system
> operators left who know what to "release" me from...well, I gave up long
> ago trying to get Xy capable of printing. It's just not worth the fight
> anymore.
It's not a drive, it's a computer--unless this is a drive array server
or something like that, with which I am totally unfamiliar. But you
seem to be talking about a real network printer. That would take
longer than a local printer that is being treated as a network one so
as to enable Xy to print to a USB printer, which is what we were
discussing. Ask your IT dept. what the UNC name of the printer you
want to print to is. They should tell you something like
\\computerx\printz. That's what you reference in the net use command.
Now, a real high-tech IT dept may have all sorts of security controls
in place that I've never heard of, but give that a try.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx