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re: XP/DOS printing
Saturday, December 21, 2002 at 5:25 pm
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Posted by Greg (1 messages posted)


I to am having problems with this. Unfortuatenly I can't even get the printer to work from an MS-DOS prompt from within WinXP Pro, with a simple "copy test.txt lpt1:". It spools the file, and says it's printing, but it never does. I have the same issue on Win2K. Any ideas?


On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 11:09 am, Richard Smith wrote:
>A DOS app that previously printed OK under XP just stopped printing. The app and
>data files still print OK on Win98/other machines. Checked all XP settings and app
>seems totally ok. All other dos-app functions are fine on XP--just printing mysteriously
>went away. Finally-- other apps (Word docs) print ok on the machine. At wits end.
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated. JRS


Written in response to:
XP/DOS printing (Richard Smith: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 11:09 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: XP/DOS printing (Phil: Friday, October 31, 2003 at 1:50 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-XP/DOS printing (Richard Smith: Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 11:09 am)
-re: XP/DOS printing (C K: Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 8:27 pm)
-re: XP/DOS printing (Terry: Thu, Dec 19, 2002, 7:50 pm)
*re: XP/DOS printing (C K: Fri, Dec 20, 2002, 10:51 am)
*re: XP/DOS printing (Ulf Michel: Fri, Jan 3, 2003, 2:12 am)
-re: XP/DOS printing (Ulf Michel: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 1:04 am)
*re: XP/DOS printing (Joe P: Tue, Oct 7, 2003, 11:11 am)
-re: XP/DOS printing (Greg: Sat, Dec 21, 2002, 5:25 pm)
-re: XP/DOS printing (Phil: Fri, Oct 31, 2003, 1:50 pm)
*re: XP/DOS printing (mix2plix: Tue, Feb 17, 2004, 2:37 pm)
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