Re: A very basic printing question re XY3

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Simpler solution: upgrade her to Xy4. I believe 4 is 100% (or 99.99%)
backwards compatible, so your relative will not even have to know. And you
can do what you need to.
> I've already consulted Brian's site on this (which remains a great job and
> a fine resource), but did not find what I was looking for. I'm dealing
> with a  relative's XY3 setup, which got transferred to a newer, more
> up-to-date desktop computer. The problem is that it only seems to offer
> an LPT3 printer port, and if that can be changed, it may be more trouble
> than it's worth. Better to do some sort of workaround. For the time
> being, I've had him doing each printer job via a Post-It Note reminder with
>
>        TYF filename ,lpt3
>
>        or variations thereto, like a page-range
> In Xy4, it would be a matter of changing the printer defaults in the
> appropriate section of SETTINGS.DFL. But this is not available in
> Xy3. Issuing  DEFAULT lpt3  at the CM gets an error that this default
> is not settable there, so I expect it must be a No Go for STARTUP.INT as
> well. Is there some sneaky default workaround for Xy3's printer port
> assignment that I'm overlooking ?
>
>
>  Jordan


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx