From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Garth Kay-Hards Subject: Re: DOSEMU not printing to USB printer Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:08:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1195387685.10756.9.camel@garthlinux.NCFPMB> Reply-To: garth@axxess.co.za Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux-msdos On 18 November, Jan wrote > ## Printer and parallel port settings > # Print commands to use for LPT1, LPT2 and LPT3. > # Default: "lpr -l", "lpr -l -P lpt2", and "" (disabled) > # Which means: use the default print queue for LPT1, "lpt2" queue for > LPT2. > # "-l" means raw printing mode (no preprocessing). > $_lpt1 = "lpr -l" > # $_lpt2 = "lpr -l -P lpt2" > # $_lpt3 = "" > # idle time in seconds before spooling out. Default: (20) > $_printer_timeout = (20) > > Do not use "-l" if you intend to use a DOS program that doesn't have a > printer driver for your particular printer. "-l" bypasses the CUPS printer > driver, only the CUPS spooler is used in that case. Okay, Jan's solution looked like the simple solution to the 3 I got (thank you Frank and Rafal for yours - I'll keep your solutions on the side) I removed the -l from the dosemu.conf file (it now reads $_lpt1 = "lpr" and the printer now allows me to print from the DOS command line. That's a big step forward for me and I will test out the DBL program now and see if it will print all that it requires. I will let you guys know what the results are. Thanks very much to you all. Regards Garth