Re: DOS printing under VMware

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Bill,

Can you do in Xy dos/nv/x/z? If so, I've got a solution. It uses Tim
Baehr's little program FAX.PGM to automatically create an RTF and call it
to Wordpad, from which you print it. Because of some problem with long
filenames, I had to find my wordpad.exe and copy into the root directory
and modify Tim's call to DOS to be:


BX dos/nv/x/z /c \wordpad.exe ≪PV22≫ Q2

But I guess you can't call to DOS.

--Harry

> You may want to check the links I posted the other day.
>
> If you have better things to do than to try to fix this, there is always
> the possiblity to print to a PS file and distill it. VirtualPc 2007 lets
> you to print from DOS, but only if you have a legacy LPT1 port. I used to
> be able to print this way, but when I changed to my current HP Z400
> workstation, which does not have an LPT1 port, this is what I do:
> I print PS files to Y:file.ps (= Y: is a share on the Win7 side which is
> actually an Acrobat Distiller watched folder (IN folder). This way I have
> a PDF in my OUT folder ready to print or to email as soon as I output the
> PS file. As a bonus, you'll have a very nice print preview. This works
> equally well in VMware or VirtualBox.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> lexitec@xxxxxxxx
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> 7.4.2014 1:07, Bill Troop wrote:
> > 5. So some other solution (there must be one) needs to be found for
> > those who want to print directly from XyWrite. I am not one of them, but
> > I would like to know how to do it, just in case!