On 7/29/2014 10:46 PM, Jon wrote:
Dosprinter working in Vdos
To anyone:
Is anyone using dosprinter and DP? I can't seem to get it working.
I inserted the command
/sel'LPT1'
intomy DPreportalong with other commands from Dosprinter
documentationbut no combination of command will get it printing.
I'm using a brother HL-S370DW(which should accept PCL language)and a
USB connection.
Would at least like to know it if the included dosprinter with vDos is
workingwith DP.
Jon Ong
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Hi Jon,
I don't believe you put the command into your DP report. You use the
config.txt in the vDos folder to set up dosprinter. So, for instance, if
you wanted your DP report to send its output directly to LPT1, you would
include a line in the config.txt file like this:
LPT1 = /SEL'LPT1:'
Then you would just configure your report to print to LPT1 and
Dosprinter passes it on through the emulation to the real LPT1.
Or if you have your printer installed in Windows with the name "Brother
HL-S370DW", you could use:
LPT1 = /SEL'Brother HL-S370DW'
The other approach is to use DPSpool and have your DP app inside vDos
create the print file in a folder monitored by DPSpool. Then DPSpool can
take care of sending it to the printer. With this approach, there's no
licensing of dosprinter necessary. What I've done is set "USE C: C:\" in
the autoexec.txt file of vDos. That lets DP inside vDos see the same
folder structure on C: as apps outside of vDos rather than having vDos
create a virtual C: drive within some other folder. Then I have a folder
named C:\DPSpool where DPSpool.exe lives and where my DP reports are
configured to send print jobs. (Note that it's critical that the folder
for DPSpool jobs must conform to the 8.3 file naming convention or else
vDos won't let DP see it.) Then I just run DPSpool and then vDos (or use
a batch file to run them both).
Tim Rude
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