Printing from dosemu

Printing from dosemu

[Mark Knecht]

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

Re: Printing from dosemu

[Mark Knecht]

Kevin Noseworthy - Specialty Software wrote:
> In dosemu.conf set
> $_printer = "lp1  lp2 ..."
> where lp1, etc. are the names of your Linux printers
> $_printer _command = "lpr"                As per the notes with CUPS you 
> may have to use "lpr -l"
> you may also wish to adjust the $_printer_timeout = (5)
> 
>  From within DOS the first printer port is either prn: or lpt1:, the 
> second and third are lpt2: and lpt3:
> Issuing a dir>lpt2: should produce a print job on the Linux printer lp2.
> 
> Hope this solves your problem!
> 

Kevin and Claudia,

    Thanks for your responses.

    I've tried setting things up as suggested above, but it's not 
working for me yet.

1) Contents of my modified /etc/dosemu.conf

$_printer = "lp1"

(also tried lpt1)

$_printer_command = "lpr -l"

(also tried lpr and just lp)

$_printer_timeout = (5)

2) From within Linux (as root) I can print as such:

Gentoo2 etc # lp dosemu.conf
request id is HP-224 (1 file(s))

Gentoo2 etc # lpr dosemu.conf

Both methods produce identical GOOD output.

Gentoo2 etc # lpr -l dosemu.conf

produces BAD output.

3) Most attempts in dosemu however produce no response and no printed 
file, or the following error message:

C:\>dir>lpt1:

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

I've tried a bunch of modifications to the suggested 3 lines in 
/etc/dosemu.conf but so far no lock. Can you see what I'm doing wrong?

thanks,
Mark

Re: Printing from dosemu

[Anderson Pereira Ataides]

Mark,

The message you are receiving (lpr: unable to print file: 
client-error-not-found) is a cups message, not dosemu.

Probably it is not a dosemu problem, but cups, configuration. Look the 
configuration files: /etc/cups/mime.types  and uncomment following line:

application/octet-stream

Also in /etc/cups/mime.convs, uncomment the line

application/octet-stream      application/vnd.cups-raw          0

I had a similar problem here and uncommenting these lines worked fine for me. 
I did not have to change the $_printer_command option.

Hope this can help you.

[]s
Anderson Pereira Ataides

Em Qua 25 Ago 2004 17:20, você escreveu:
> Kevin Noseworthy - Specialty Software wrote:
> > In dosemu.conf set
> > $_printer = "lp1  lp2 ..."
> > where lp1, etc. are the names of your Linux printers
> > $_printer _command = "lpr"                As per the notes with CUPS you
> > may have to use "lpr -l"
> > you may also wish to adjust the $_printer_timeout = (5)
> >
> >  From within DOS the first printer port is either prn: or lpt1:, the
> > second and third are lpt2: and lpt3:
> > Issuing a dir>lpt2: should produce a print job on the Linux printer lp2.> 
>
> > Hope this solves your problem!
>
> Kevin and Claudia,
>
>     Thanks for your responses.
>
>     I've tried setting things up as suggested above, but it's not
> working for me yet.
>
> 1) Contents of my modified /etc/dosemu.conf
>
> $_printer = "lp1"
>
> (also tried lpt1)
>
> $_printer_command = "lpr -l"
>
> (also tried lpr and just lp)
>
> $_printer_timeout = (5)
>
> 2) From within Linux (as root) I can print as such:
>
> Gentoo2 etc # lp dosemu.conf
> request id is HP-224 (1 file(s))
>
> Gentoo2 etc # lpr dosemu.conf
>
> Both methods produce identical GOOD output.
>
> Gentoo2 etc # lpr -l dosemu.conf
>
> produces BAD output.
>
> 3) Most attempts in dosemu however produce no response and no printed
> file, or the following error message:
>
> C:\>dir>lpt1:
>
> C:\>lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found
>
> I've tried a bunch of modifications to the suggested 3 lines in
> /etc/dosemu.conf but so far no lock. Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
>
> thanks,
> Mark
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