Configuration:

AREV 2.1

IntranetWare 4.11

AREV application launced from Windows 95

HP Inkjet printer

LOCAL PRINTING PROBLEM. I HAVE NO PROBLEMS SENDING PRINT

JOBS TO NETWORK PRINTER Q'S.

Each time I try to print to my LOCAL printer from this

AREV application, the AREV application is minimized.

A simple print command e.g. from TCL: LISTDICT SAMPLE (P

will cause this to happen. This is irritating to my

users. Anybody have a solution?

Thanks in advance.

Roger Herring

Roger,

Your problem is probably due to your DOS printer settings in Windows 95. Go into your Control Panel, and double-click on Printers. From there, you should see a list of printers available, your locally connected printers included.

If you don't see your local printer, you need to install a driver for it. Even if the printer were just a really old daisy-wheel printer, you'd need to install at least the OS-provided "Generic Text" driver.

Given that the local printer has a driver install for it, right click on it and click on "Properties" from the menu that appears. It should give you a setup dialog with tabs. I can't predict exactly what tabs you'll see, because it depends on your network and the printer driver itself, but you should see a "Capture" tab. Click on that, and then examine options on that tab to find out how to set up a Capture for a particular LPT port. Let's use LPT2 as an example (we'll say that LPT1 is already captured to your Network printer).

Now that that's set up, you should be able to go into Arev, and type "pdisk" (and hit enter). It will ask you which DOS file you want to print to. Type in "LPT2" (without the quotes). Although we're choosing a "DOS file", it will still go to that port, since LPT2 is an internal device filename on the OS level (similar to /dev/lp1 in Unix).

Try this and let me know if it works out.

-Scott Revelation

Under W95, My HP Inkjet (820Cse) pretty much locked up the system if tried to print more than a couple times. Mostly I just printed to disk and used something else to actually print.

With W98, the problem has gone away.

May not help, but at least there is hope.

Scott,

I tried what you suggested and it didn't help. I now believe this is

a function of the HP printer driver. I'm using a HP DeskJet 722C printer on this particular machine.

This "minimized" effect only seems to happen with the inkjet printers.

It doesn't happend with a dot matrix printer.

Also, I'm having trouble with my AREV applications locking up after

a user minimizes the arev application (using Alt Tab) and leaves the

application minimized for more than 5 minutes or so. When he/she tries

to go back into the application if fires up but is completely locked

up.

Is this a known problem?

Thanks,

Roger Herring

On HP's web site they say to not run DOS programs full screen and the Dos program will not minimize. I tried it and it worked.

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