Originally to: All JSW> john s wolter wrote:
JSW>I need to have FreeDOS inside Windows XP, virtual A & B diskettes, and JSW>divert LPT1 to Windows printers. I'm setting this up for a non-geek user's JSW>Laptop to run a 1985 DOS program. JSW>Here's what I need... JSW>1. FreeDOS inside Windows XP because that's what they run JSW>2. Divert LPT1 to Windows printers JSW>3. Virtual A & B diskettes using hard drive directories because the Laptop JSW>has no diskettes and add-ons are not workable JSW>DOSBox has 1 and 3 but not 2. 2 is in a forever beta. John, I am not a Freedos user. I started reading this sub in mid December 2010 because of my interest in plain old MS-DOS. I have a XP computer that I wanted to use the DOS Mail Reader program SLMR (in a window) with a USB Printer to print out some messages I read. In the FIDO Windows95 echo Jeff Guerdat, who was in the echo some time ago, explained to me how to do it using NET USE . If this method is what You are looking for in Your project try this: net use lpt2 \\computername\printername /persistent:yes Notice the space between the printername and the Slash sign. The printername is what the printer is called in the Printers and Faxes listing in XPs Start Menu. The computername is found on the Computer Name Tab on System Properties. I only used LPT2 because HP had already used LPT1 for some Virtual Printer they installed on the XP box. Sometimes when I wanted to print to LPT2 in SLMR the printer in my all-in-one didn't start so I made a .BAT file to reset the function. Here is what I put in that BATch File: net use net use lpt2: /delete net use net use lpt2 \\hpxp\cx3810 /persistent:yes net use HPXP is what my Computer Name is, and cx3810 is the name of my Epson AIO printer-scanner. Try typing net use /help at a XP prompt to learn more about the net use command. Hope this helped. * SLMR 2.1a #T348 * Inform all troops that communications are broken down. --- * Synchronet * Capitol City Online - telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - 502-875-8938 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
