USB printing on old fox sw.

#1

Is there a way for foxpro25 apps (DOS) to print on USB printers on
WinXP?

Thx.

#2

There are a couple solutions on Tek-Tips. Start at http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=731359 which also points at http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=155776. Note: You'll have to sign up, but it's free.

Rick

"AK" <newal (AT) rugwho (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Is there a way for foxpro25 apps (DOS) to print on USB printers on
WinXP?

Thx.

#3

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:10 GMT in comp.databases.xbase.fox, AK
<newal (AT) rugwho (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

Is there a way for foxpro25 apps (DOS) to print on USB printers on
WinXP?

not reliably. i had the same problem with dBASE V for DOS under

XP, and had to go back to good old LPT1. using the DOS mapping
of LPT2 was simply not reliable. sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't.

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#4

Have a look at http://www.dosprn.com/ - works ok on Win2K

Otherwise, we share thw printer on the local machine an do a

net use lpt1 \\<machine name>\<printer name> /persistent:yes

Tim.

AK wrote:

Quote:

Is there a way for foxpro25 apps (DOS) to print on USB printers on
WinXP?

Thx.

#5

On 28 Jan 2005 03:37:40 -0800 in comp.databases.xbase.fox,
tim_g (AT) elp (DOT) tv wrote:

Quote:

Have a look at http://www.dosprn.com/ - works ok on Win2K

Otherwise, we share thw printer on the local machine an do a

net use lpt1 \\<machine name>\<printer name> /persistent:yes

i found that net use only works about half the time with XP.

it's simply not reliable.

To send an email, remove the nospam...

#6

Dennis P. Harris wrote:

Quote:

On 28 Jan 2005 03:37:40 -0800 in comp.databases.xbase.fox,
tim_g (AT) elp (DOT) tv wrote:

Have a look at http://www.dosprn.com/ - works ok on Win2K

Otherwise, we share thw printer on the local machine an do a

net use lpt1 \\<machine name>\<printer name> /persistent:yes

i found that net use only works about half the time with XP.
it's simply not reliable.

Same here. My solution was to create a batch file which basically does
"COPY %1 %2".

From Fox for DOS I call it like this:
RUN "CMD /C NTPRINT.CMD printfile.tmp \\server\\queue"

It's been working well in 30+ offices since Windows 2000 started to
become available. LPT1 works too.

As of the start of this month we finially migrated our last significant
FoxPro for DOS application to our SQL/VB platform. I will miss Fox for
DOS in a funny way.

--
Paul

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