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echo: os2inet
to: GEIR_EIVIND MORK
from: DAVID CALAFRANCESCO
date: 1997-04-10 16:30:00
subject: Os2 and Windows printer

Geir_Eivind Mork wrote in a message to All:
 GEM> I'm asking in the wrong echo, I know.. but I don't wanna
 GEM> connect myself again to the other os2 echos just to ask a
 GEM> simple question like this (??) 
Yes you are correct, this is definately the wrong area for this... 
 GEM> Well, I have this GDI laser and have installed the drivers
 GEM> so I can use it with my win-os2. (I have warp 4 btw) but
 GEM> when I try to print, the whole windows hang (not so strange,
 GEM> but I've got plenty of work I should have submitted but
 GEM> can't just because I can't get this damn writer working..
 GEM> with os2.. ) 
 GEM> So I'm asking you, how can I get win-os2 to print using the
 GEM> installed windows printer ? if it isn't possible, I need a
Windows printers use 386 virtual device drivers in a true windows envorinment 
and will not function in OS2. Set the printer up on a second machine that 
uses windows and use an ethernet IP connection between Warp and Windows and 
use IP for the printer link. 
 GEM> shrink to calm me down =) because that printer have made me
 GEM> angry a couple of times, and if it does it this time too,
 GEM> I'm gonna go mad at something.... somebody.... 
Don't buy Win{insert device here} products if you want to be able to use them 
with ANY real software like NT, OS2, Linux etc... 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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