On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Felix Karpfen wrote:

> How should the "printer" entries in dosemu.conf be amended to make
> allowance for the changed printing environment which features in Linux
> RedHat 7.1 (and presumably subsequent releases).  On my box, DOS
> programs, with print routines that default to LPT1, do not work under
> dosemu-1.0.2.1?
> 
> If this question has already been answered, I would be grateful to be
> pointed to the answer.  For the record - simply changing the name of the
> printer in dosemu.conf to the printer name shown in /etc/printcap has no
> effect; when the print routines are called, the output is sent to screen
> and not to the named printer.

I'm not sure about RH 7.1, but what DOSEMU does for printing is:
collect all DOS printing output in a temporary file
flush the file at regular intervals (using a timeout)

if you specify $_printer = "lp" in dosemu.conf then
the temporary file is printed like this:
lpr -P lp tempfile
just like when I printed my thesis like
lpr -P HP4550 thesis.ps

does this command not work in RH 7.1 on ordinary files?
And if not, how do you print a file in RH 7.1? pdq?

Bart

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