I seem to have somehow gotten rid of the printing problem that I had with PowerMail in both MacOS 9.1 and 8.6. The symptoms were that data got sent to the printer/modem port upon launch of PowerMail, and data kept getting sent to the printer while PowerMail was open. Attempts to print brought an error message that the port was busy, and to quit the appliation that was using the port. This occurred even when PowerMail was the only open application, and also when I had _no_ third-party extensions, control strips or control panels installed.
Tonight, I decided on a whim to set up a MacOS 8.6 extension set using Action GoMac, and disabled the Control Strip, since GoMac handles control strip modules. To my surprise, I now can print when PowerMail is running, and I get no extraneous data sent to the printer/modem port! Now, _If_ this was the only change I made, and I have to follow up to check, that would imply to me that one of Apple's control strips was causing the problem, since I was using Extensions Strip in MacOS 9.1 and Apple's Control Strip in MacOS 8.6. More later if I can pin this down any more. -- Don V. Zahniser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
