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 screen reader pick the info out of prn, to make > those apps usable. > > It wasn't a great solution, but it was better than nothing, so > > I can't see how to get mode to do this, and the particular apps don't allow use of a file as a printer. Fortunately it's not a big issue. As I'm using qemu anyway, I can easily save the lpt output. I have also found something I can use on the host Linux box to interpret the PCL output and convert it it PDF - gpcl6 from a local compile of ghostpdl. I've tested - the output seems to be just fine. -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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 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 your printer. Most network > > printers can do this. > > > > The detailed instructions are in the mTCP PDF file. > > I will look into that too. > Even better... I can pipe to that. -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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 a file, then use netcat to send the > file to the JetDirect port on your printer. Most network printers > can do this. > > The detailed instructions are in the mTCP PDF file. I will look into that too. -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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 broken. I see mention of a source file for it as part > > of WATTCP but have no idea how to get it, nor how to build it once > > obtained. > > I never tried, but lpr.exe can be found in > <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/wattcp/wat2001b.zip>. > 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] filename. As for getting output from the apps I'm using, it would mean capturing an LPT port to a file somehow. Still working on that one. -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[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 IPP being possible from FreeDOS, but if it is, that 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 no idea how to get it, nor how to build it once obtained. Of course, there might not be a successful way to get usable output, but any suggestions would be welcome. (The printer would be accessible directly or through cups running on the host Linux system - and there may even be ways to provide any additional filters required at that level - it is outside the scope of this question to worry about that.) -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Networking FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU
On Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:33:11 -0400 Paul Dufresne wrote: > Recopying part of a message I posted on the Devel mailing list here: > > You may try to adapt the following line that I use: > > qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486 -name FreeDOS -machine > pc-i440fx-4.2,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -enable-kvm -m 64 > -overcommit mem-lock=off -no-user-config -nodefaults -rtc > base=utc,driftfix=slew -no-hpet -boot menu=on,strict=on -sandbox > on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny > -msg timestamp=on -drive format=raw,file=fdt2208.img,format=raw > -cdrom T2208LIVE.iso -audiodev pa,id=mysnd -device > sb16,audiodev=mysnd -device adlib,audiodev=mysnd -machine > pcspk-audiodev=mysnd -vga cirrus -display sdl -usbdevice mouse -net > nic,model=pcnet -net user > > make sure to adjust: fdt2208.img and T2208LIVE.iso to what you have. > > This is itself an adaptation from: > http://www.freedos.org/books/get-started/june14-manual-install.html > > It seems I have broken packages - got networking now but having a lot of problems otherwise. Any easy way to square it all up again? -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Networking FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU
I had FreeDOS 1.2 working quite nicely, networking included, on qemu, but I am lost as to (a) how I originally achieved it (b) how I might do likewise with 1.3 - is there any specific documentation I can follow? -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Compiling a new keyboard layout
How would I configure and compile a new keyboard layout, if for reasons of having a non-standard one I need to? Also, how do I gain access to the packages to install through fdimples? I do have a network connection, but can only now see what I have installed. -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-free...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
