Alain,
That's fascinating. I'll have to test that. As far as the DOS program I'm
forced to use, updating it would require a large investment. There is no
prospect to generate enough cash to pay for the update.
Somewhere I have some disassembly of DOS which may reveal why. Where did I
put that?
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is one case where millions of ignorant are just plain wrong.
>
> I found a fix for that many many years ago in a Novell manual and it works
> on everything except Dosemu:
>
> Don't write to LPT1:, instead open a file named "LPT1" and write to it
> normaly. You will see that when you *close de file* the spool is flushed.
>
> This is no trick, it was well documented at the time, and it is implemented
> for basic compatibiliy.
>
> Alain
>
> john s wolter escreveu:
>
>> I found not only myself but millions, according to Google, of others have
>> experienced printing delays when printing from inside a virtual DOS session.
>> FreeDOS's parts [ in | on | inside] XP is not immune to XP's behaviors.
>> I came across a fix at Tom's Hardware. The delays were 17 seconds and 3 to
>> 5 once the changes were made.
>> I wanted to print to a TCP/IP networked & USB HP laser printer from a old
>> DOS program that outputs to LPT1. No program source is available of course
>> and Windows XP does not capture LPTx output as did Win98. I've found the
>> NET command still works in the DOS box and LPTx printing can be redirected
>> to any shared printer.
>> NET USE LPT1 \\sharingcomputer\theprinter at the command prompt.
>>
>> This includes using \\12.0.0.1 <http://12.0.0.1>\printer localhost
>> loopback. This worked but the printing would not start for 15 seconds.
>> You can also install the "Microsoft Loopback Adapter" software for
>> standalone computer, turn on networking, share a printer, and then connect
>> it to an LPTx port.
>>
>> Specifically here's the fix,...
>>
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/21658-45-printer-delay
>>
>> Here it is...
>> 1) in REGEDIT ( START->RUN-> REGEDIT ) click : Hkey_local_machine then
>> click : System then click : CurrentControlSet then click : Control somewhere
>> at the bottom of the control list Click: WOW
>> in LPT_timeout property change it to 2 (seconds)
>> 2) Go to SYSTEM.INI file in [386enh] section search [Network] if it does
>> not exist enter the following :
>> [Network] PrintBufTime=10 [IFSMGR] PrintBufTime=10
>> this will reset the wait to 10 seconds
>> Hope this is of some use.
>>
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