Re: [Freedos-user] Printer driver

2005-12-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Дек-2005 21:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edmund Swylan) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ES> How does one go about finding a DOS driver for a given ES> parallel port printer (eg Epson Stylus C84, Epson LX-300+)? For which program? Each program under DOS works with own drivers, t

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer driver

2005-12-27 Thread Andre Tertling
Edmund Swylan wrote: I have tried the FILE: approach - with LX-300+, a 9 pin Epson. The Win95 FILE: seems to be unknown in the DOS window; so I did the printing in Notepad. The .prn turned out 401 bytes long. The original .txt was 10 bytes: 8 letters plus 0x0d 0x0a. I then changed the printer se

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer driver

2005-12-26 Thread Andre Tertling
Hi Edmund, there is no such thing as a generic DOS printer driver for a particular printer. You have to compile the printer commands all by yourself and just send them to the printer port. Depending on the printer, available printer commands will be listed in its manual. Generally speaking, in

[Freedos-user] Printer driver

2005-12-25 Thread Edmund Swylan
How does one go about finding a DOS driver for a given parallel port printer (eg Epson Stylus C84, Epson LX-300+)? The Epson sites and the more often referenced driver sites do not seem to offer DOS drivers for the printers I am interested in. But maybe some of the offered drivers will do or perhap