[nflug] sorry windows printing question

[anthonyriga]

Thanks tried those instructions and it worked... Just
had to use printer pooling for both usb virtual then
net use lpt1 commnand.. 

--- "David J. Andruczyk" <djandruczyk at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm
> Describes a solution
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314499
> Network solution (used by the first choice in a
> roundabout way)
> 
> 
> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> 
> > anthonyriga wrote:
> > > I have friend that has Win XP and is running an
> old
> > > dos program that he needs to print out
> information
> > > from it. The printer that he has is parallel and
> his
> > > laptop only has usb. He ended up buying a usb to
> > > parallel converter to use his old printer to
> print.
> > > How do I get dos to print with the converter or
> > > winblows to reconize it? Is there a Linux
> solution
> > > that I use to do this? Any suggestions? 
> > >
> > >
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> > I just dealt with this the other day. In your
> friends case, it really
> > 
> > doesnt matter that he was able to connect the
> printer, from DOS it's 
> > going to look for the LPT interface itself. I have
> seen some tricks
> > to 
> > supposedly make DOS able to print to a USB port
> but I never had any 
> > luck. I don't think your going to find a way
> around this one. You
> > might 
> > have better luck using FreeDOS in Linux but I
> would imagine you'll
> > run 
> > into the same problem.
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> Dave J. Andruczyk
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