*-Patrick Olson (27 Jul) | | On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > Turn off print spooling on the Win machine. I forget exactly the proce | > dure for this on Win3.1, it has been to long. It thinks it is printing | > to a local printer and is sending the data in chunks to the printer, | > which is fine for a directly connected printer. The Win machine does | > not need to spool, that is what lpr is for. | | I don't think print spooling is on. The "Use Print Manager" checkbox, is | off. That was un-checked before this all started, so if that is how print | spooling is turned off, that wasn't the problem. | | I have some new symptoms that might make good brain candy for anyone who | understands this: | | It has NEVER had a problem printing from Netscape 3.x. The problem always | crops up when I'm trying to print a .PCX (screen-shot) file from | Paintbrush. | | Since Netscape 3.x doesn't seem to like .PCX files or .BMP files, I | haven't found a way to load the image in Netscape and print it from there, | or I'd try that and see what happens.
Do the apps that create the problems have an option for 'background' printing or something similiar? They send the print data to the spooler in chunks when the program is not busy. That might be something to look for. -- Brian Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
