Printing from DOS mode program delayed

[Guest]

Hello, I have a strange problem on the computers I take care of. They run
an old DOS accounting program called Real World. Recently (today) I upgraded
the server from Netware 3.12 to Server 2k3, and all the workstations from
Windows 95 to Windows XP. New hardware all the way around of course. When
they run 1 particular report from Real World, to a local printer, an IBM 2391
dot matrix printer, all but the last 2 or 3 lines prints out fine, then it
pauses for 15-30 seconds before it finishes the page. This behavior was not
there with the old systems. Any ideas on what to try to fix the problem
would be great. Thanks.

--Tommy Vielkanowitz

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

you will need to change the XP 16bit application layer registry entries for
LPT_Timeout

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;102059
Registry Entries for NT Virtual DOS Machine (VDM):

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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