wnbell@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu (William Bell) (09/08/89)
I have a KW-524E (by Kouwei Electrical Corp) Serial/Paralle/Game Adapter
card installed. My parallel printer seems to not want to print with
WordStar 5.0 or PC-Outline. I got WordStar 5.0 to work by turning off the
printer busy test (on the printer Busy Handshaking Menu) in WSCHANGE. Then
I set the printer speed to 100 CPS. Now printing works on WordStar 5.0
but it still is considerably slow.
I couldn't get PC_Outline to print either. So I tried all the hints
in Appendix B with trying the other .prn files. Then it said to try the MS-DOS
MODE command and I did (after a fresh boot) and it didn't work. I even
got desparate and thought MS-DOS was going crazy so I PRINT /d:lpt1.
Nothing worked. So I got out my manual for the KW port. Right now
the card is supposed to be set up at IRQ7 and at 378H (I/O address).
I can change the IRQ to IRQ5. I can also change the address to either
3BCH or 278H...
Well will this work? What is going on here??? I'm about ready to throw
the computer in the garbage. All my prints from dos work fine!!!!
Are these programs looking for printer at a I/O address my LPT1 isn't at??
Hmmm... Please respond via EMAIL.
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FIDO 1:260/170... Online games!robert.barker@canremote.uucp (ROBERT BARKER) (09/11/89)
According to the information supplied with my I/O card, the address for LPT1 is 3BCH. LPT2 is found at 378H and LPT3 is numbered 278H. I hope this helps. RB --- * QDeLuxe 1.10 #2718