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- From: sommer@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
- Subject: Summary: redirecting non-PS to file
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.025125.20423@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Organization: Brandeis University
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:51:25 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- Thanks to those who replied to my Q.
- I ended up using LPTX700 which does exactly what I need and want.
-
- >>I'm using a DOS program that expects to print directly to a dinky
- >>parallel printer of some sort. The computer is on a Novell network
- >>with an HPIIIsi in PS mode, so I can't print anything.
- >>
- >>What I would like to do is redirect the output (from lpt1 or lpt2) to
- >>a file so I could use some other utility to print it to the HPIIIsi or
- >>transport by floppy to some other place.
-
- *FROM: pemakine@serifos.helsinki.fi
- *
- * Well, another list :-) This is from simtel20.army.mil - from
- * it's index file:
- *
- *"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
- *"LPT2DSK.ARC",1,9216,8,870325,"Capture LPT output to a disk file"
- *"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
- *"LPTX600.ARC",1,31596,8,870319,"Redirect printer output to a file"
- *"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
- *"LPTX700.ARC",1,48801,8,880206,"Updated LPT (redirect PRN to file)"
- *"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
- *"PRNDI802.ZIP",1,35640,8,920516,"COM/LPT port redir. to any other port or file"
- *"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
- *"PSTASH20.ARC",1,2830,8,890216,"Redirects lpt output to file"
- *
- *
- * The lptx-series programs have been used very much, so
- * propably the LPTX700 would be a good "buy".
-
- +FROM: cellis@ds5000.dac.northeastern.edu
- + HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
- + fritz@ra.csc.ti.com
- +
- +In DOS to trap printer output to a file, I have used a program which first
- +appeared in PCMag, and is also on the disk which comes with Paul Somerson's
- +PCMagazine DOS Powertools (Bantam).
- +
- +It is PRN2FILE.COM
- +
- +I haven't had time to search, but I'm sure it's somewhere in the ftp-accessible
- +files at wuarchive.wustl.edu or at simtel.
- +
- +It remaps LPT1: to whatever filename you have given, until you turn it off.
-