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From: Mark Knecht <mknecht@controlnet.com>
Subject: Printing from dosemu
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:49:06 -0700
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Hi,
    I hope I'm in the right place to try a few questions. I'm running a 
Gentoo box with dosemu installed. dosemu itself seems fine for running 
the old text-based program I need to run, but I'm perplexed at how to 
get dosemu to print to my Linux printer.

1) In /etc/dosemu.conf I've enabled the line:

$_printer_command = "lpr"

2) From Linux I can print (through CUPS) to the network printer:

Gentoo2 root # lpr /etc/dosemu.conf
Gentoo2 root # lpq
HP is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  root    221     dosemu.conf                     16384 bytes
Gentoo2 root # lpq
HP is ready
no entries
Gentoo2 root #


3) From within dosemu I cannot seem to find the right command to get to lpr:

C:\>copy autoexec.bat prn:
autoexec.bat => prn

C:\>lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found

C:\>copy autoexec.bat lpr:
Invalid parameter. - 'lpr:'

I've seen others that had this error on the web but I cannot find an 
answer to any of their queries. Hopefully I will do better here.

thanks in advance,
Mark