From: Dossy Date: 2002-05-22T09:52:44+09:00 Subject: Re: printing under windows On 2002.05.22, Mark Slagell wrote: > > 2. Hoom, hrum.... The machine I'm developing on doesn't have a printer > on its parallel port, so I was testing on network printers and finding > that the TCP/IP quasi-port name defined under w2k, with a colon appended > so it's like "IP_www.xxx.yyy.zzz:", produces an error, as does > "\\hostname\printername". But the machines that would use this code > would probably all be attached to parallel printers. So, worth a try maybe. You can tell Windows that a network printer is to "capture" a particular LPT port on the client machine. So, you can configure a network printer to "sit" on LPT3: -- the printer driver redirects I/O destined to LPT3: to the network printer. This is the "print from DOS applications" support trick. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)