DFX 8000 Problem--Lines Per Inch in DOS

[nobleboro04555]

This problem is driving us crazy; we use a DFX-8000 to print several
files out of a old DOS program that is essential. We've just upgraded
the machine to XP, and the DOS program works great but we've run into
a snag printing.
Here's a quick rundown:
We used to use a GWbasic program to change the size of the Lines per
inch of the DFX-8000 to eight from six. The GWbasic program will no
longer work in the XP enviroment. Is there a way to acheive the change
from 6 to 8 within the DOS enviroment?
We can use a shareware program to do it through windows but its
performance is spotty.
any ideas?

 

[Jon O'Brien]

Is there a way to acheive the change from 6 to 8 within the DOS
enviroment?

C:\>ECHO [whatever the control code is] > LPT1

Jon.

 

[Davide Guolo]

The GWbasic program will no

longer work in the XP enviroment.

Why not ?
it's the timeout problem with LPRINT ?

10 S$=CHR$(...)
20 OPEN "LPT1:" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
30 PRINT #1,S$
40 CLOSE #1

Kind regards,
Davide Guolo
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