Hi, I feel this belongs more to freedos-user and not that much to -devel, as you are having a typical end-user problem, with no development involved on your part...
About your "network printer under dos" problem, you might want to take a look into the archive. It is a subject I played with in 2007, and found a semi-solution that, while not perfect, provided quite good results at the end of the day. http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-user/thread/7705c9030712260747i328f25d3y9c8cf9a590eec...@mail.gmail.com/ Since you seem eager to contribute to the DOS community with some low-level programming, feel free to develop a 'network driver' for DOS that would intercept LPT calls and send them via JetDirect to a configurable printer using the Wattcp or mtcp stack. Your problem will be solved then :) cheers, Mateusz On 07/08/2014 03:56 AM, Jim Michaels wrote: > my hp because it is HP PCL 5/6 you can dump text and formfeeds straight > into it, though because font sizes etc have not been set, text size is > rather large and duplexer is not taken advantage of. > > also, my officejet printer is a network printer and uses HP SLP or HPLIP > or the port 9100 thing, it has a jetdirect. so I am not sure how I am > going to print, with usb cable or via network... ? not sure what to do > with canon, epson, brother, etc. maybe they use HP PCL5 also? > > I suppose if you could telnet the text from stdin or something into the > printer? :-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> > *To:* Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > *Sent:* Saturday, July 5, 2014 7:49 AM > *Subject:* Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting started > > > Hi Andy :-) > > > I've been a FreeDOS user on and off for > 10 years and am > interested in > > contributing but don't really know where to get started. > > That largely depends on what you would like to improve. > > > I currently work developing and testing printer firmware and > software but > > expect that this will be quite a learning curve from the QNX/Python > > environments that I spend a lot of time in. > > I expect most printers to accept plain text to print, > but there also is a DOS port of ghostscript for those > printers who first need translation of input data... > > > Are there docs that describe the DOS programming API that I > should start > > with? Or bugs that I should poke at to get a more in-depth view > of how > > everything fits together. > > Yes, you can read the "RBIL", but again, it really does > depend on what you want to do. If you want to write DOS > software in C, or maybe port existing Linux software by > using DJGPP, you do not have to know much about how DOS > works internally. You will notice differences, of course. > > Regards, Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
