"Dale Shipp" bravely wrote to "Bruce Clark" (09 May 05  23:17:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "Re: Alt P."

 -=> On 05-08-05  19:23,  Bruce Clark <=-
 -=> spoke to Jean Parrot about Alt P. <=-

 BC> Default printer port        LPT3


 BC> Then see if XP has a way to intercept that output and convert it
 BC> to USB printer output.

 DS> I'd certainly like to be able to do that, but have never seen how.
 DS> In my case, the printer is connected to another computer in my LAN.
 DS> Windows programs can print to it just fine -- but the DOS programs
 DS> have trouble finding it.


Dale,

I tried an experiment once in getting dos programs to use the network
printer. The trick is to find the port device driver name given to the
printer and then send output to that device. For example opening the
"console" or "prn" etc... this is not a real example because the
printer can have any device name assigned. This may even be valid in
redirecting printer output to the usb port but I haven't experimented
with this yet. However, I'm sure it works for the printer.

 M*i*k*e

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