Re: [Freedos-user] network printing

2012-06-28 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Hi David, There are versions of DOS supplied with machines that have a mode command that can redirect the printer port. It might even be a standard feature of the mode command. But it is strictly a port change - instead of using the BIOS to send characters to the printer it uses the BIOS to

Re: [Freedos-user] network printing

2012-06-28 Thread mbbrutman
Quoting Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com: small rant We really need more programmers. I've done my part to create a framework for writing TCP/IP and UDP applications. There are a lot of neat ideas floating around, but for one person it is like trying to boil the ocean. Can write

[Freedos-user] network printing

2012-06-27 Thread David Lawson
I am not a programmer so I have no clue how to go about this, but I would like to share my thought. Maybe someone would like to run with it. Is it possible to modify the mode command to redirect lpt output to netcat? Perhaps the parameters could be set with a separate configuration file. At my