On Windows 95, 98 or Me, the currently active window can lose focus when the LPD server receives a print request. The server has to have focus briefly to initiate the print job, especially if it’s the first LPD request received since Windows was started, but it doesn’t always return focus properly.

When this happens, create a new icon in the Startup group of your Start menu. Link the to C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM\NetUtils\marlpd32.exe. Change the directory as appropriate, but make sure marlpd32.exe is loaded from your Startup group. That’s the application taking focus, so if it’s started with Windows, you shouldn’t see your main window lose focus again.

The LPD Server in Century Internet Services will sometimes hang when you add a printer. There is no patch for this. But you can just kill the process from Task Manager. The printer will still be added.

Century Internet Services includes an LPD (line printer daemon) server. However, it only runs on Windows 3.1 or higher. In TinyTERM 4.x, it only runs on Windows 95, 98 and Me.

To put a Century LPD Server on Windows NT 4, 2000, XP or Vista, you will need TinyTERM Plus 4.30 or higher. No prior release includes an LPD server.

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