>I have a FPD2.6 program which prints labels out to a dymo SE300 serial labelwriter. It uses a language called ZPL to communicate with this printer over the serial port. The program works fine from Windows 98, but when I try it in windows XP Pro, it hangs when the first character is sent out to the com port. The code fragment is
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>SET PRINTER OFF
>SET PRINTER TO COM1,9600,N,8,1,S && Need for DOS
>!MODE COM1 BAUD=9600 PARITY=N DATA=8 STOP=1 XON=ON
>SET PRINTER ON
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>? "^027*^029t^040^029V1"
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>The stuff after the ? is ZPL. The progran hangs on the output to the com port with
>"PRINTER NOT READY" retry or cancel.
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>I am stuck here. I know the cables and hardware and baud rates are correct because I can
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>COPY FILE.TXT COM1:
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>from a command window within XP Pro and it prints fine.
>What is wrong/what would you suggest to make it work?
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>Thanks in advance
>Peter Heinicke

Peter,
Would this work ?
-Write all output to a temp file
Copy tempfile.tmp com1:
erase tempfile.tmp
Cetin