Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

2008-10-08 Thread john s wolter
Alain, That's fascinating. I'll have to test that. As far as the DOS program I'm forced to use, updating it would require a large investment. There is no prospect to generate enough cash to pay for the update. Somewhere I have some disassembly of DOS which may reveal why. Where did I put that?

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

2008-10-08 Thread Alain M.
That is one case where millions of ignorant are just plain wrong. I found a fix for that many many years ago in a Novell manual and it works on everything except Dosemu: Don't write to LPT1:, instead open a file named "LPT1" and write to it normaly. You will see that when you *close de file* th

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

2008-10-08 Thread Robert Riebisch
john s wolter wrote: > I found not only myself but millions, according to Google, of others > have experienced printing delays when printing from inside a virtual > DOS session. What do you mean by "virtual DOS session"? Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ ---