Unable to Print Directly to Ports from a Command Prompt

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You can control how Print Manager sends documents to the printer with the Print Directly To Ports option. By default, a document is spooled to the hard disk first, and then the spooler sends it to the printer. The spooler sends the document to the printer in the background. If you want to bypass spooling, you can print directly to the printer. However, you will have to wait until the document is printed before continuing to work with your application. This option is not available when a printer is shared.

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. From Print Manager, select a default printer that is local.
2. Select Printer Properties, and then choose Details.
3. Select the Print Directly To Ports option.
   
   NOTE: This option is not available if the printer is shared.
4. Open a Command Prompt from the Main group and copy a file to a local port with a printer attached.

There will not be any error messages, but no printer output will occur.