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Serial Printing Work-Arounds For "Not Accepti
DocumentID: 645890
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:09 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Printing out of 5.1 to the NEC Silentwriter LC-890 when the computer is first turned on gives printer not accepting characters in control printer. But after printing out of 5.0, 5.1 prints fine. Solutions: This was a problem with port initialization, applying to serial printing only. It has been fixed for the next release of WP 5.1 (NOT the 1-19-90 release, but the next one after that). Please keep track of our customer and sent an update of the WP 5.1 Program diskettes when that time arrives. In the meantime, we have found a few tips for working around the problem. (1) Try sending a MODE command at DOS before going into 5.1. The command would say something like MODE COM1:9600,N,8,1,P. If this works, then you may want to have our customer put it into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. (2) One or two customers have had to use the MODE command in conjunction with setting the serial port to AUX (Sh-F7,S,3,2,8,AUX,Enter). (3) Send a print job from DOS (COPY CON COM1, etc.). (4) Go into 5.0 and initialize the printer (Sh-F7,7). These are the only work-arounds we know of at this point.

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