Printing from DOS based application

[Guest]

I have upgraded a user from Win 98 to XP and now he can no longer print from
his Dos based applications...I cannot figure out why. Can anyone help?

 

[Guest]

Windows 2000 and xp dont have dos

 

[kurttrail]

I have upgraded a user from Win 98 to XP and now he can no longer
print from his Dos based applications...I cannot figure out why. Can
anyone help?

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm

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[Guest]

Thank you this is exactly what I have been searching for

 

[Treeman]

I have upgraded a user from Win 98 to XP and now he can no longer print
from
his Dos based applications...I cannot figure out why. Can anyone help?

You may want to find the executable file for that program and under
properties, set it to run in Win 98 compatability mode.
Just a thought.
Treeman

 

[Ken Blake]

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Windows 2000 and xp dont have dos

True, but irrelevant. They *do* have the ability to run DOS-based
applications.

To CBAIR, what applications, and how is the printer connected?
Parallel port or USB?

 

[Plato]

I have upgraded a user from Win 98 to XP and now he can no longer print from
his Dos based applications...I cannot figure out why. Can anyone help?

Because you just gave up dos when you decided to to go a non-dos OS.

 

[Peter]

Because you just gave up dos when you decided to to go a non-dos OS.

The above isn't really an answer.

Could be various reasons. Some old DOS apps drive the LPT hardware
directly and they probably won't work under any O/S past win98.

 

[Joseph W. Rider]

The above isn't really an answer.

Could be various reasons. Some old DOS apps drive the LPT hardware
directly and they probably won't work under any O/S past win98.

Try this. Share the printer (even if not on network), note printer name.
From the command prompt type the following:

net use lpt1: \\computer name\printersharename /persistent:yes

This is equvilant to the Win98 "do you want your DOS programs to use this
printer?". Hope this helps.

Joe
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