Printing from XYDOS in XP

[James Woolley woolleyj@xxxxxxxx]

If you have a parallel port printer recognized as a DOS device, e.g., LPT1,
it would be a matter of printing to a "file" which is that device,

e.g.,

typef ,lpt1

If you are using a UPS printer (which will lack a device name recognized by
DOS), it's a two-stage process and requires software such as Rawprint
(Google will find it for you), which Robert Holmgren has recommended here
before. An alternative is the PrintFile software (Google this, too);
PrintFile is recommended by Edward Mendelson on his WordPerfect 5.1 website,


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

which has some other ideas that may be of use too. The two options I've
mentioned require that you have a fully-capable printer--a "Windows" (i.e.,
Windows only) printer won't work.


James Woolley


At 03:35 pm 7.12.04, you wrote:
> Harry and Avrom: Thanks for your views on XYDOS printing in Windows XP.
> However, has anyone figured out how to print directly from XyDOS in XP
> without going through another word processing program.
>
>
> Jim Eberle