simplemod Posted February 11, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted February 11, 2012 think back, way back.. I need a way to print if possible or to at least view a printout that would normally go through dos to one of those old cranky parallel port printers. I don't have one, and don't see getting one anytime soon. I do have numerous USB printers on a network or directly connected. I am using D-Fend Reloaded to run this program I need to print from. I am in no way a savvy dos user, I can usually stagger and stumble around till I get where I want to be. As far as writing commands, yeah right, not me. any ideas would be great, just type slow so I can keep up. LOL.
Nobodygood>XI< Posted February 11, 2012 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Posted February 11, 2012 can you print to a file? Awards
simplemod Posted February 11, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted February 11, 2012 not yet, I'm about to try another version of d-fender, some others have been modded to add some sort of printer capabilities. Some say it works, and others say it doesn't. Print to file would be great, if I could do that even. Thanks Nobody, I'm gonna keep trying.
KaptCrunch Posted February 13, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 347 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5105 Content Per Day: 0.89 Reputation: 4364 Achievement Points: 41134 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 65 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted February 13, 2012 what format using to read ? word, notepad? plain TXT Awards
hxtr Posted February 13, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.94 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted February 13, 2012 simplemod - old school help think back, way back.. I need a way to print if possible or to at least view a printout that would normally go through dos to one of those old cranky parallel port printers. I don't have one, and don't see getting one anytime soon. I do have numerous USB printers on a network or directly connected. I am using D-Fend Reloaded to run this program I need to print from. I am in no way a savvy dos user, I can usually stagger and stumble around till I get where I want to be. As far as writing commands, yeah right, not me. any ideas would be great, just type slow so I can keep up. LOL. you can capture LPT1 to one of your local or network printers. Then the DOS output will go to printer. You can also have LPT1 set to a file. I will have to look at that one for best option. The properties of the printer is where you can change what port it uses. PM me if you need help. I can take a look at it for you. Done in past many times but not with your dos emulator. Wont make a defference.. .or shouldn't.
simplemod Posted February 13, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted February 13, 2012 thanks HXTR, I may be hollaring at you sometime to walk me through it. I'll let you know. Thanks
Cavey Posted February 13, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted February 13, 2012 Hxtr is correct. However I don't understand the question. You need to print out or view a printout??? If its the latter surely pick up the paper it printed out on and read it! See why I don't understand?
hxtr Posted February 13, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.94 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted February 13, 2012 Cavey Hxtr is correct. However I don't understand the question. You need to print out or view a printout??? If its the latter surely pick up the paper it printed out on and read it! See why I don't understand? I think what is going on Cavey is he has this old dos program... database or something close to it that contains data he needs out of the program for review just needs it out of the dos program. I was reading about his emulator and it looks like it does have printer support. now if a print screen option would work that would be easy.. capture a picture of the data and port to pdf, jpg, other. Then he can take that and review his data. But if the dos emulator is aware of his local LPT on his windows I would think it will work. But an option is available........
hxtr Posted February 13, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.94 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted February 13, 2012 simplemod thanks HXTR, I may be hollaring at you sometime to walk me through it. I'll let you know. Thanks I would like to crossloop your machine. Then I can better fix this. I will send you a pm with my phone number.
simplemod Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted February 14, 2012 ok. I replied to the pm. yes, you're correct, I need info or to see info from an old dos program.
Cavey Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted February 14, 2012 Well the easiest way would be to print screen it. Then print out the image file it creates. If using windows vista or 7, click on start, and type in the search window "snipping tool". Open that and capture the screen. Save it as a jpg, and then open the jpg in a normal picture editing software, and print as normal. The quality will be perfect. Otherwise if on older OS, then download Gadwin printscreen (http://www.gadwin.com/download/). We use that at work on our Citrix servers.
simplemod Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted February 14, 2012 the stuff I'm trying to see can only been seen from the print out itself. the program doesn't display all information on screen, it only gives an option to print it out.
DEEJAYKEG Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.09 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted February 14, 2012 I love stuff like this and wait to read the solution! Sounds like there's someone else who knows how to write a DOS batch file! Bring back the old days when this stuff was really fun! Awards
simplemod Posted February 14, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Author Posted February 14, 2012 gonna call HXTR this weekend, I figure it'll be working for me by the time I get off the phone. hehehe
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