On Monday 01 October 2007 11:17, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Then try NCSA lpr, WATTCP lpr, or CUTCP. Well... I guess LPR/LPQ/LPRM etc... are usefull when printing to a printer attached to a Linux/Unix PC. My printer is a _stand-alone_ network printer (it doesn't require a PC to work, it has its own IP, etc...). I doubt network printers supports LPR protocol... There is the JetDirect one for them (that is printing to their TCP/9100 port just like it would be a Centronics connection).
The only thing I found for now, is using the "jd.exe" program from the PPRD 2.0 package (http://www.smashco.com/wattcp/pprd200.zip) I load my packet driver, and then I can use the following command: jd -H192.168.0.21 file.txt ...and I get the file.txt file printed out (my printer have the IP address set to 192.168.0.21). Obviously, it's not very handy, as I would like to print from other DOS programs, not only from the command line :( I guess the best solution would be to have a TSR which is redirecting all data from LPT to the jd program... The JD program can be used that way too: ECHO This is a test | jd -H192.168.0.21 Obviously, it's still not resoving my problem... Of course I could use some LPT2DISK tools, then transmitting the file from the disk to JD, but it is too complicated to handle for everyday use, that's why I am searching a solution which will allow me to print just pushing the "print" button of my DOS printing application... Any ideas? ;-) Best regards, Mateusz Viste ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user