Mouse Drivers

[David Danzl]

Lprint sends data to a printer if the printer happens to be connected
to a serial port. Most of todays printers connect to USB. Does anyone
have the code for writing a driver for a usb printer, in pb 3.5 or 3.2.
Thank You

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[Ron Shaw]

I could be wrong, however, I believe that DOS Compilers will not
recognize some USB devices directly due to the devices being
Windows only devices. On printers, for example, you would need
a Windows program that would monitor the DOS printer port and
redirect the text to the Windows driver which would convert the
text into the corect format for the printer.
Some more information on this subject is available in this same
forum dated April 17,2000.
Hope this helps.


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[Ron Shaw]

The forum title is:Printing via the USB port
Date:April 19 of 2000.

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[Donald Darden]

DOS support for USB is mixed. Any found drivers are usually
device specific - certain CD drives, hard drives, or printers
may be covered. It might be a fruitless search to find a
suitable driver, especially for a non-parallel port printer.

One of the advantages of Win9x/Me is how close they are to
DOS under the hood. Just like the use of long file names,
booting into windows then opening a DOS window or just starting
up with a command line prompt can give you the benefit of having
windows drivers installed, even when working from the DOS command
line.

People who draw the line in the sand and say that they will not
move beyond DOS, or will not move up from an older version of
Windows to something newer, need to recognize that sometimes you
can have the best of both worlds by installing more than one OS
on their system, or that staying with something that has had no
serioud upgrade in ten to 20 years is going to hurt at some point.
Especially when it comes to using newer hardware and software.

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Old Navy Chief, Systems Engineer, Systems Analyst, now semi-retired