Re: How to redirect LPT1 output to a disk file?
This worked great! Thank you very much. Roger House Try: $_lpt1 = "cat > /tmp/file_name" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: How to redirect LPT1 output to a disk file?
> > # $_lpt1 = "lpr -l" > # $_lpt2 = "lpr -l -P lpt2" > # $_lpt3 = "" > > # idle time in seconds before spooling out. Default: (20) > > # $_printer_timeout = (20) > > ## > > However, these lines are not at all clear to me. What changes are needed so > that lpt1 output goes to a disk file? well, you could try to capture LPT output in file, convert to PDF and mail to yourself /HOME/USERNAME/.dosemurc -- $_lpt1 = "tmpprn" $_printer_timeout = (30) -- /USR/LOCAL/BIN/tmpprn - #!/bin/bash # # TMP1=`mktemp /home/$USER/epson.X` || exit 1 TMP2=`mktemp /home/$USER/outps.X` || exit 1 TMP3=`mktemp /home/$USER/pdf.X` || exit 1 # date > ~/dt.txt # # write out data into TMP1 # cat "$@" > $TMP1 cd /usr/local/bin # epsonps -q -ta4-12 -o$TMP2 $TMP1 gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=$TMP3 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE $TMP2 $ sleep 2 # mv $TMP3 $TMP3.pdf /usr/bin/mutt -a $TMP3.pdf -s "DOS PRINT" $USER@localhost < ~/dt.txt # sleep 2 #cleanup rm -f $TMP1 rm -f $TMP2 rm -f $TMP3.pdf rm -f ~/dt.txt Hope this lead you to right way -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
How to redirect LPT1 output to a disk file?
I am using dosemu 1.4.0.8 to run QuickBasic programs that are some 20+ years old. Except for one issue this has been working great. The problem is the LPRINT statement, which I believe sends output to the parallel port. I would like to capture this output into a disk file. At http://dosemu.org/docs/HOWTO/x246.html#AEN248 there is a section called "How can I get the parallel ports to work?" which says The dosemu.conf has lines at the end to redirect printers to either lpr or a file. On my computer these lines from /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf seem to be what is referred to: ## ## 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) ## However, these lines are not at all clear to me. What changes are needed so that lpt1 output goes to a disk file? Thank you for your attention. Roger House Software Developer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
