[HELP] port redir in Win98SE

[patchworks]

Hi all.

I really need any suggestion to solve this problem: redirect COM1 printings to USB or mapped LPT1.

I tried with MODE but, as M$ claims:

A redirection of COM1 to LPT1 requires the use of a special buffer for which the MODE command would have to allocate space. The MS-DOS MODE command does not have this capability.

So, do you know any solution (that works unde 98SE) for this problem ?

Thanks in advice.

[jaclaz]

NOT what you are asking, but maybe a workaround.

Would this work?

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm

There are a few Shareware/Commercial apps that should be able to do that, but I don't know of any Freeware/Open Source one.

The "old" method of making a .prn file and sending it to a network shared printer through COPY /B, though not "nice", should work.

Some details:

http://geekswithblogs.net/dtotzke/articles/26204.aspx

Using this (Freeware):

http://www.lerup.com/printfile/

should make the process almost "transparent".

Read "between the lines" on these pages:

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/winprint.html#usbprint

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/ropsprint.html

There is a very old program that you should be able to find by googling lpx700.zip that may work to capture LPT1 prints and redirect them to a file.

jaclaz

[patchworks]

A bit more difficoult:

we have an intranet application (under Internet Explorer) that automatically send prints to a COM1-thermal label printer.

We need to enable an inkjet USB printer to do the same job directly on A4 papers, but the program dosn't allow to change the output (and can't be modified).

In other words, we "just" need a trasparent COM1 redirector tool.

Thanks in advice for any help you can share.

Marco

Edited November 5, 2008 by patchworks