From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Alkoff Subject: Re: How can I print under dosemu? Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:53:11 -0600 Message-ID: <441F94C7.80908@mindspring.com> References: <441F4238.1000006@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <441F4238.1000006@mindspring.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Larry Alkoff Cc: dosemu Larry Alkoff wrote: > I have been trying to print with dosemu 1.2.2 running under Slackware > 10.2 Linux. > > The files I used to install dosemu were: > > dosemu-1.2.2-bin.tgz > dosemu-freedos-b9r5-bin.tgz > > When I try to print I get an error message: > lpr: error - unable to print file: client-error-not-found > > So far I have tried to print from Wordstar 7.0 > and using a simple > type filename >lpt1 which is how I have always printed in dos. > > There is a line in ~/dosemu/conf/dosemurc that says: > $_printer = "Deskjet500" > which is the printername used in CUPS under Linux. > > What command would I use to print a file under dosemu? > > Larry Going through my saved files from this mailing list, I noticed that others have had the exact same error message when trying to print. I just solved the problem and hope others find the info useful. In my setup, there is a file at /home/user/dosemu/conf/dosemurc with the Deskjet500 printer line. This file is apparently _NOT_ used by dosemu. The solution was to copy over dosemurc above to /home/user/.dosemurc. cp ~/user/dosemu/conf/dosemurc ~/.dosemurc Note the dot in the target, making it a hidden file. Dosemu will pick up the directives from the .dosemurc and print from dosemu now works perfectly. Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux