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WP Printing Garbage When COM Port Is Redirect
DocumentID: 600246
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:22 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: WordPerfect prints garbage when printing to a redirected COM port. (The user redirected the port from COM1 to LPT3.) Solutions: There are two items that can cause this problem:
1.      The customer may have set up their mouse in WP as Serial (Shift-F1, 1). If WP re-initializes the COM port for a serial mouse, garbage will print out.
2.      The problem may be hardware. WP only calls the interrupt to output to the LPT port. The operating system monitors and communicates the data to the serial port. If the problem is hardware, you may have to direct the output to COM1 within WP.

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