jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein) (02/19/90)
My mother has a Toshiba laptop (I think T2500), and is having some serious problems getting margins set correctly using Borland Sprint. I use Sprint with success, and I told her to use the "paperwidth" keyword, documented in the advanced users' guide (she hadn't even opened it, yet). No good. Later my brother, who sold her the machine and went to Japan (where she works) to set it up, mentioned what I think might be a vital clue: that the Toshiba OEM'd MS-DOS wants to know precisely what kind of printer, by name, you are using; this at install time. Now, my experience of PRN: drivers in the IO System tells me that they're pretty dumb, just passing bytes out the parallel port; but this smells like the Toshiba PRN: code might be too smart for its own good. Presumably, they smartened it up a bit so it could do a better job of "print screen" when in graphics modes; that sort of thing. Has anyone out there with a Toshiba laptop, or Toshiba-weirded-out MS-DOS any experience along these lines? Can you corroborate my story? How can you turn this garbage off? Please email me here, and I'll summarize if there's tremendous public outcry. :-) Jim Hickstein jxh@cup.portal.com ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!jxh