Tag Archives: LPT port

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February 4, 2008 – 5:10 pm
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By Dave

Using a shared network printer on an MS-DOS based program. Comments Off

For those of you, or those of you with clients, who have MSDOS based programs like Wordperfect and you want to print to a networked printer, this is all you need. This also works for other printers who use USB ports or something other than LPT.
The solution was to map the share to an LPT [...]

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Published:
October 24, 2006 – 5:07 pm
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By Dave

Printing to a shared printer from DOS 1

If you or your client is using an old-DOS based program to do work (for example, Wordperfect for DOS) – and you need to print to a printer which is shared on the network, you first need to map the printer to an LPT port. You do this by using the following command in a [...]

Categories: Programs, Shell, System Administration, Windows

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