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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
- Subject: Re: WinOS2 Parallel ports busy bug (SP and 2.1b)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.033738.9555@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <hrpdko.57@pnv.palm.cri.nz>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:37:38 GMT
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- In article <hrpdko.57@pnv.palm.cri.nz> hrpdko@pnv.palm.cri.nz (Dale K. Ogilvie) writes:
- >
- >In both the SP and now the 2.1 beta the windows program EPSCAN2 (a scanner
- >program) cannot use the LPT2 port to which the scanner is connected. OS2
- >reports that LPT2 is busy (being used by another app) even when nothing else
- >is running.
- >
- >This problem can be fixed by replacing the SP/2.1beta VLPT.SYS file with the
- >version from 2.0GA.
-
- Actually, the correct way to fix this is to open up the settings for the
- printer object, find the page where you select the printer port, and double
- click on LPT1 (or LPT2 or 3 or whatever you need). An undocumented (I
- couldn't find docs for it anywhere) settings box will open where you can
- turn on the "Shared Access" for that port. Works great.
-
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