This is a re-post, my first two attempts had too many attachments. I'm re-attaching just the TXT file being printed, and here are some relevant screenshots:
http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/dosnet/ps.png http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/dosnet/write_print_file_reque st.png I'm giving up on attaching the 90kb PostScript created by CUPS, nothing interesting in there (see the .PNG render above). On 16 Jun 2021 at 21:41, Michael Brutman wrote: > > I hate to even suggest this, but are you using the /B option on the > file copy to indicate that a binary copy is needed? Otherwise, the > first Ctrl-Z in the file will end the file copy prematurely. > Dear Mr. Brutman, first of all thanks for your personal attention and for the infomed suggestion. I did not know about this pitfall, thanks for weeding that one out. This does not appear to be my problem. See the attachments. The file that I'm sending is a clear text file - I've captured the standard output of "net help" into a TXT file, and I'm trying to print that. The TXT file contains no occurrence of the 0x1A character (26 decimal) - if that's what CTRL+Z in DOS produces. I'd swear the printing has worked for me, once, in a slightly different environment (NetBootDisk launched via PXE in our "legacy" boot profile). I may have been not diligent enough in my testing. Right now Bryan works in FreeDOS booting from drive C on bare metal, I'm trying this in a VirtualBox. I'll have to try again in my PXE environment... A disk share works fine, files do get copied intact. Just the LPT redirection fails in this curious way. BTW, on various occasions during the network startup scripts, the ancient MS networking stack in DOS seems to wait for no apparent reason for many seconds, before taking further action. For comparison, I've tried loading the "packet driver" flavoured stack, and that loads real fast, the mTCP app suite starts instantly, DHCP takes like a second to finish etc. Frank
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