Re: XYWRITE digest 2820

["William E. Shawcross" wshawcross@xxxxxxxx]

XYWRITE: Xywrite Word Processor for Dos & Windows wrote:
			  XYWRITE Digest 2820

Subject:
Re: Printing With III (XYWRITE digest 2815)
From:
"Patricia M. Godfrey" 
Date:
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:11:55 -0500

Look, try this:
1. Determine the UNC name (not the octet address) of the printer.
(Printers, right click on the icon for that printer, Properties; I'm
working on 98 here, so I cannot say exactly where you'll find it, but
one of those tabs should display it, in a form like this:

\\ComputerName\\HPLJ5000
)
2. Write down the UNC name.
3. Open a DOS prompt and type
net use lpt2 \\Computername\HPLJ5000 /persistent:Yes (using the UNC
name you found in step 1)
4. In Xy, set up your printer to print to LPT2

Call a file, and try to print it.

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I tried this without any luck. Then a friend sat down at my computer
and did the same things (as far as I could tell), and it worked for him
like a charm. Anyway, thanks to all your help, it looks like the
problem is solved. Many, many thanks!

-- Bill Shawcross
Said friend reminds me that there is one thing he had to do which
apparently changed things. In testing I had noticed that if I tried to
copy a file (or even a single word) to LPT1 from the command line, I
would get a message to the effect that there was insufficient server
memory to execute the command. My friend snooped around the MS
knowledge base and found a fix: using regedit, increase some buffer from
11 to 25. If anyone cares, I can ask him what it was. Anyway, once
this was done and the machine was restarted, it began behaving just like
 people here predicted!

-- Bill Shawcross