Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl From: cjl@ecsvax.UUCP (Charles Lord) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: HELP with Compaq PRN port! Message-ID: <464@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 23:56:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.464 Posted: Fri Sep 20 23:56:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 05:22:52 EDT Distribution: net Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 41 I have a strange problem with my Deskpro. I can use the parallel printer (MX-100 hooked to LPT1:) in: 1. Port mode (DIR>PRN, for example) 2. BASIC LPRINT statements 3. Wordstar 4. Fortran (MS) 5. Copy statements such as COPY CON PRN etc *BUT* if I type Cntrl-P anything the system says Write Error Writing to device PRN Abort, Retry, Ignore? ..while PRINTING this message on the PRINTER!! The only way out of this is a warm boot- Abort does not work. Unfortunately, our new TCS accounting package (at $600 a module) uses that same call for all printing, so it bombs every time it tries to print. I have tried MS and PC DOS 2.1, 2.11, 3.0, and 3.1 with no difference.. (there is no other parallel card to cause interference) Could there be a weird problem in the printer cable? Perhaps porting and ^p use different handshaking, causing this problem. I made the cable from a 25 cond ribbon cable from the Compaq DB-25S to the Epson 36D connector, tying pin 1 to pin 1, etc. Any hints, suggestions? TCS says it is a hardware problem and not their concern. So much for the "extra support" that expensive software gives you! Charles Lord USENET: ..!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl ATT: (919)469-9682 USPS: 108 Huntington Circle Cary, NC 27511