I'm at a fork in the road and need some advice...
I've written a nice DOS program that I want to offer for sale on a web site I'll soon be constructing.
Here's my problem...
The program code was written in PB 3.00b and although it works great with output to the screen,
I'm debating whether or not I should also offer hardcopy output to a printer.
I actually have the hardcopy output code in place within the program but because it utilizes
LPRINT statements I can't dump output to the newer printers that operate with the W2k or XP
operating systems. I'm still trying to fully understand why this can't be done but I'd like
to look at some alternatives in the mean time.
Above all else, I want to make hardcopy output available to old and new OS systems alike
whether using serial or USB ported printers.
Some things I'm considering are:
1. Will re-writing the code in PB/CC 3.04 (which I recently bought) using XPRINT statements solve
my problem?
2. I know that there are DOS printing utilities that should allow me to this but requiring a new
customer to "also" purchase this type of utility would probably lose a sale.
3. My program isn't that well suited to a Windows environment (and I'm not Windows programmer)
so migrating the code to a Windows environment isn't a direction I wish to go.
Will I need to abandon hardcopy output or does anyone see a solution to my problem?
Thanks for any feedback...
I've written a nice DOS program that I want to offer for sale on a web site I'll soon be constructing.
Here's my problem...
The program code was written in PB 3.00b and although it works great with output to the screen,
I'm debating whether or not I should also offer hardcopy output to a printer.
I actually have the hardcopy output code in place within the program but because it utilizes
LPRINT statements I can't dump output to the newer printers that operate with the W2k or XP
operating systems. I'm still trying to fully understand why this can't be done but I'd like
to look at some alternatives in the mean time.
Above all else, I want to make hardcopy output available to old and new OS systems alike
whether using serial or USB ported printers.
Some things I'm considering are:
1. Will re-writing the code in PB/CC 3.04 (which I recently bought) using XPRINT statements solve
my problem?
2. I know that there are DOS printing utilities that should allow me to this but requiring a new
customer to "also" purchase this type of utility would probably lose a sale.
3. My program isn't that well suited to a Windows environment (and I'm not Windows programmer)
so migrating the code to a Windows environment isn't a direction I wish to go.
Will I need to abandon hardcopy output or does anyone see a solution to my problem?
Thanks for any feedback...
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