Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:39:54 -0400 Travis Siegel wrote: > Should be easy enough, (prn is the first lpt port, and can easily be > redirected to a file using the mode command).  Not directly related, > but I did used to use prn to make some programs print everything they > said, then have my

Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 23:08:54 +0100 Phil Reynolds wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:31:38 -0700 > Michael Brutman wrote: > > > I'm not going to be porting LPR to mTCP anytime soon; I think about > > 4 people would have a use for it. However, if a printer supports > > JetDirect printing on port

Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 20:31:38 -0700 Michael Brutman wrote: > I'm not going to be porting LPR to mTCP anytime soon; I think about 4 > people would have a use for it. However, if a printer supports > JetDirect printing on port 9100, then mTCP netcat can be used. > Simply have your program print to

Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

Hi Phil, >> > would certainly help. However, the other alternative in my case >> > would be LPR. I have not found a package with LPR yet, and most >> > links I have found around the web either include anything but a >> > binary or are broken. I see mention of a source file for it as part >> > of

Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

I'm not going to be porting LPR to mTCP anytime soon; I think about 4 people would have a use for it. However, if a printer supports JetDirect printing on port 9100, then mTCP netcat can be used. Simply have your program print to a file, then use netcat to send the file to the JetDirect port on

Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

On 9/17/2022 8:30 PM, PhilI never tried, but lpr.exe can be found in . Look in apps/apps.zip. Ah, this seems to work well, for printing a named file. Can certainly print plain text with lpr [address of printer]

Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:55:34 +0200 Robert Riebisch wrote: > Hi Phil, > > > would certainly help. However, the other alternative in my case > > would be LPR. I have not found a package with LPR yet, and most > > links I have found around the web either include anything but a > > binary or are

Re: [Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

Hi Phil, > would certainly help. However, the other alternative in my case would > be LPR. I have not found a package with LPR yet, and most links I have > found around the web either include anything but a binary or are > broken. I see mention of a source file for it as part of WATTCP but > have

[Freedos-user] How to obtain LPR - or is there a way to use IPP?

Now that I have got my FreeDOS setup working correctly again (a fresh setup and copying over my old apps sorted it), I am looking into how I might be able to print from some apps (normally they expect a directly connected printer supporting either ESC/P2 or PCL). I have not found anything about