USB001 - Printing to

[david thain]

I have been lucky in some respects printing from PB/DOS. The printer I purchased lets me use the USB port to print, using the LPRINT statement and control codes. I have W2K as an OS and it has printer pooling. I select the ports USB & LPT1 ports and it works just fine thru my programs. My problem is sometimes I would like to print thru the IDE to get a listing of my source code and use a different font. I wish there was a way besides going into wordpad.exe or some windows program to do this. It would be nice if the next version of PB/DOS had better printer control.

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djthain

[Larry Cooke]

I use Win XP home onto a notbook, that has a port replicator over
USB. On the replicator is a parallel Port an It`s driver name is
"USB001"; a virtual usb port.

Set the printer as sharable and then:

From Dos do a "Net Use Lpt1: \\yourmachine\printername"

and viola you have a printer to use from within dos as LPT1:. This also works on IP printers too.

I should say this works with XP pro, I don't have or use Home and I know that "Home" does have some networking limitations, just what specifically, I don't know but the above might/should work for you.

Larry

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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live
long enough to make them all yourself. - Sam Levenson

[Donald Darden]

LPT1 is usually assigned to the printer associated with the first
(if more than one) parallel port in a computer. This is for
legacy purposes. Additional printers in DOS and early windows are
likely to be called PRNn, where the small n represents a number.
To bridge between older terminology, PRN1 and LPT1 would refer to
the same printer. If you look at your Device Manager or Printers
under Windows, you may be able to determine how Windows sees the
USB printer.

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

[Roger Garstang]

I'm at work with all networked printers so can't find the option
in XP. But I know in Win9x there was an option to capture printer
ports in DOS. I can't find much in XP except what it calls pooling
which looks liek some kind of way of making one printer print from
multiple ports which may work.

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If you aim at nothing...you will hit it.

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hello,

I use Win XP home onto a notbook, that has a port replicator over
USB. On the replicator is a parallel Port an It`s driver name is
"USB001"; a virtual usb port.

How to print from the Doswindow to this printer ???

I`ve tested folowing:

copy test.txt prn:
copy test.txt lpt1:
copy test.txt usb001:

but nothing works.

Any ideas ???

Regards

Matthias Kuhn

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