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- Path: sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!grumpy
- From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
- Subject: Re: Facelift/WP5.1 under OS/2???
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:11:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.071152.10512@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <1993Jan19.183957.6410@jpradley.jpr.com> <C16nqx.6vF@world.std.com>
- Organization: Unix in NYC
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- In article <C16nqx.6vF@world.std.com> crosen@world.std.com (Carl Rosen) writes:
- >grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel) writes:
- >
- >>I'm trying, with little luck so far, to get Word Perfect 5.1 to run with
- >>Facelift 1.5 in a VDM.
- >
- >>I've got a Laserjet II that had happily been using Facelift for WordPerfect
- >>under DOS, but this doesn't seem to work under OS/2; instead I get several
- >>hundred spool files filled with gibberish.
- >
- >Use FLSETUP and change the printer port mapping to LPT1 -> LPT1 (if your
- >printer is on LPT1, of course.) The main thing is that both fields have
- >to match as hardware ports. This worked for me until I installed the
- >Service Pack. Now, after I print a document, I must leave WordPerfect and
- >restart it, or it will crash when the screen needs to be redrawn :( I am
- >not using FL + WP in a VDM, just a plain vanilla DOS session.
- >
- >-CR-
- >
-
- The problem has been solved...We changed (in FLSETUP) to point the printer
- at LPT1.OS2. Everything is working copacetic now. BTW, we're running
- this under the 2.1 beta.
-
-
- Jeff Markel
-
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