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Printer Selection - Setting 110 Baud
DocumentID: 634099
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:03:32 PM

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

Problem

Solutions: A customer wanted to know what happened to the menu selection for 110 baud in 5.0/5.1. He had an old daisy wheel printer that only works at 110 baud. We removed this selection in favor of the 19200 baud selection in 5.0. There is a way to still get it to work.

The 19200 baud selection only works on IBM PS/2 computers or other computers that emulate the PS/2 BIOS. If your computer is not one of these, choosing 19200 baud will set the baud to 110, so the old functionality is still there.

If a customer (like the one I talked to) has a PS/2 AND needs 110 baud then you cannot do it in WP. The customer needs to put a mode command in AUTOEXEC.BAT to set the baud rate to 110. The customer then also needs to put the command mode lpt3:=com1 in AUTOEXEC.BAT. Then in WP, select LPT3 as the port. Doing this will cause WP not to reset the baud rate because we do not think it is a serial port.

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