Re: Printing from XyDOS to a network printer

[Thomas J Hawley tjh@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Wolfgang Bechstein  on Mon,
07 May 2001 19:09:58 +1000

To get XY4 DOS to "see" a network printer, enter the following at the operating
system's command line:

  NET USE LPTn \\computer_name\printer_name

where LPTn is the local port (usually LPT1), computer_name is the UNC name of
the computer to which the network printer is attached, and printer_name is the
share name of the network printer.

This aliases the local port, which is all that XY can see, to the network
printer. Microsoft Knowledgebase Article ID Q245017 has the details. Remember
that the NET command has to be issued each time the local machine is booted; you
may want to put it in a startup file, or perhaps a batch file that gets XY going.

   Tom Hawley
   tjh@xxxxxxxx