"BRUCE CLARK" bravely wrote to "JEAN PARROT" (09 May 05
 15:12:00)
 --- on the heady topic of "Alt P."

 -=> Quoting Jean Parrot to Bruce Clark <=-

 JP> Hello Bruce, we were saying !

 BC> Printer Configuration
 BC> and set it for:
 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.

 JP> That did not work out, Bruce. It locked my system, I had
 JP> to go C-A-D again. I will have to keep going .txt to Word.

 BC> Before it'll work, XP will have to be configured to grab anything
 BC> sent to LPT3, convert it from parallel to serial, then redirect
 BC> it to the USB printer port.

 BC> You won't be able to just redirect it, LPT is parallel, USB is serial.

Serial, parallel, doesn't matter because there is a device driver
between the program ouput and the physical interface. The driver
receives "bytes" and does the actual output. For example in dos it is
easy to copy a file to printer or copy keyboard to file or a file to
the serial port, or any other combinations you please.

 M*i*k*e

... I never used to be able to finish anything, but now I
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