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Hi All,
A friend of mine has an old DOS application which can only print to LPT1,
LPT2 or LPT3. He purchased a new PC which only has USB ports. He obtained
a lead which allows windows applications to print to his printer and
after some suggestions from this newsgroup we managed to get the DOS
application printing after sharing the printer as HP1 and using the
following:
net use lpt1: \\127.0.0.1\HP1
This appears to work but there are two problems.
1) You need to re-issue the net use command from a dos box every time
the PC is re-booted. If you type net use it says the LPT1 is unavailable.
I have tried putting a batch file in the start folder for all users but
it does not work. Running the batch program from a dos box works.
2) There is a considerable delay when printing
I do not know if these two issues are related.
Can anyone add any advice on overcomming these issues ?
TIA John
Hi All,
A friend of mine has an old DOS application which can only print to LPT1,
LPT2 or LPT3. He purchased a new PC which only has USB ports. He obtained
a lead which allows windows applications to print to his printer and
after some suggestions from this newsgroup we managed to get the DOS
application printing after sharing the printer as HP1 and using the
following:
net use lpt1: \\127.0.0.1\HP1
This appears to work but there are two problems.
1) You need to re-issue the net use command from a dos box every time
the PC is re-booted. If you type net use it says the LPT1 is unavailable.
I have tried putting a batch file in the start folder for all users but
it does not work. Running the batch program from a dos box works.
2) There is a considerable delay when printing
I do not know if these two issues are related.
Can anyone add any advice on overcomming these issues ?
TIA John