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- NUMBER : P4TH062190U56
- SUBJECT : IBM 4019 Printer
- DATE : 6/21/90
- OS VERSION : All
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- GENERAL INFORMATION : There have been many calls concerning the new model
- 4019 IBM printer. Here is some some useful information.
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- It seems that that printer comes with a so called "print sharing device",
- which is a little black box that hides down under the machine and converts
- an lpt1 port to 6 serial ports and allows 6 stand-alone PCs to share the
- printer etc. Many people out there are connecting it to a network F/S
- through this device and are unaware of the configuration required etc.
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- The last customer I worked with reported that they were able to get the
- printer up as normal when they found out how to bypass the device, and set
- it up as a standard lpt printer. Their end user however wanted to use the
- printer with network workstations, stand-alone machines and a vax mini all
- at the same time! They were actually able to do this by booting the
- fileserver to dos from floppy then running a batch file to execute the Dos
- mode command to re-route LPT1 to com1 etc..then they would have the batch
- file load and run some kind of a TSR program (which comes w/ the printer) to
- configure the print sharing ports etc. Then they would have the batch file
- load NET$OS from the floppy.
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- YOUR NAME AND DEPT. : Randy Ferguson - ATS
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- (Check all that apply)
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- (X) This information was verified verbally.
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