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| | Printing from a Dos program I have a new notebook with Vista Home Premium SP1 that is being used with a wireless network (only the one notebook computer) with a 3 year old HP USB inkjet printer plugged in directly. All printing works normally(except from the dos program) with print icon coming on in the taskbar when printing. My old desktop computer with XP could print form the dos program. With the XP all I had to do was before I wanted to print I went into the control panel for printer - then to properties then ports and changed it from USB to LPT1 then hit the print command on the dos program screen then the print icon would appear in the taskbar. I would double click on the icon which would bring up the print queue the click on file-properties and change the port back to USB and it would print. With Vista I do not see the print icon when I hit the print command on the dos program and nothing happens. Anyone have any idea how to fix this. I only print a 50 page report every week. This is financial software that we will be replacing next year but for this calendar year I would like to make it work. -- Ken North |
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| Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, FreeBSD 7 | Re: Printing from a Dos program Use dosbox. Vista doesnīt support DOS b/c DOS and itīs apps try to interact directly with the hardware (bad programming habit from the days of CP/M and the mainframes) which Vista wonīt allow apps to do. BTW: the command prompt isnīt DOS, itīs a somewhat mediocre emulation of DOS that only works with recent 32bit DOS apps. |
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | Re: Printing from a Dos program Except that DosBox apparently doesn't support printing. Look at Printfil.com. Costs $ but works for my Dos DbaseIII+ applications. |
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| Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, FreeBSD 7 | Re: Printing from a Dos program You could also use virtualbox with xp inside. |
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| | Re: Printing from a Dos program "bmx15" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:56a4b88dca1f5c179dbe2f98208dccdb@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > You could also use virtualbox with xp inside. > Please QUOTE the post you are replying to. http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Thank you. -- Asking a question? Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about, your OS, Service Pack level and the FULL contents of any error message(s) |
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