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echo: bluewave
to: DALE SHIPP
from: BRUCE CLARK
date: 2005-05-09 23:05:00
subject: Alt P.

-=> Quoting Dale Shipp to Bruce Clark <=-

 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.

It would probably be some sort of XP software redirection. 

If you aren't using XP, then it would have to redirect to the LAN. 
I'm assuming the LAN printer is an LPT (parallel port) printer. 
If not, then the redirection would also have to convert the signal 
from parallel to serial. 


 
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