Re: RM/Cobol - Printing in XP

From: Hugh Candlin (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 03:25:59 GMT

Dan <me@here.com> wrote in message news:qQZcc.12656834$Of.2111706@news.easynews.com...
> The application that we are using has the following setup. LPT1 is used for
> the physical local printer port on the clients computer. LPT2 through LPT5
> go to various network printers. I have now found that I can print to LPT1
> through LPT5 to any of the network printers as long as it is set up with the
> NET USE command.
>
> The question of the day is....through XP....can we find a way to print to
> LPT4 and LPT5? We can do this without issue in 98se. Just not XP. (DOS
> Emulation)
>
> Once again thank you so much for the help!!!!
>
> Dan

Call Microsoft. There is a patch available to fix that bug.

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