RE spooling

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

Michael, thanks for the very informative quote from the Thompsons' book.
I had not known all the precise distinctions between EPP and ECP. (Though
I once fell foul of variations in the early EPP standard: had bought a
PC, assured that it had an EPP port. Then bought a scanner, and after
hours on the phone with tech support, discovered that my port was not
"really" EPP.)

That business of "new hardware found" is one of the known (but not much
commented-on) "features" of Windoesn't. Try NOT turning the printer on
until the PC is up and Windows fully loaded. The port you will have to
let it reinstall, I fear. The different kinds of port are just that:
different hardware configurations. (After all, if you had bought an
add-in parallel card--as I had to in the case of the not-quite EPP
port--, Windows would call that New Hardware.) But Windows has a bad
habit of trying to reinstall printers if they're on when it loads. M$
claims that's because they "weren't installed correctly the first time."
Yes, well, it was M$'s "Install Wizard" that did the installing, so they
should know.

Patricia