Re: No cost way to print to USB port

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Harry--

I've been (gratefully) using Tim Baehr's wordpad
program--reprogrammed for MSword--for a while now in order
to print to my USB printer.

I was assuming that dosprint would allow me to print
directly from XYdos without going through the
conversion/reformatting/lock-up of the original XYdos file.

Using dosprint, how many steps are involved in dosprint's
printing a XYdos file? I gather from what you've written
here that it may not be a simple matter of hitting CTRL+P
and watching the XYdos file print. I'd be willing to spring
with the $105 if it were.

Thanks for any information.

Judith Davidsen

Harry Binswanger wrote:
>
> Okay, thinking more about the $105 charge for DOSPRINT, I realized that I
> can get the same results for cost $0 by using Tim Baehr's (I think it was
> Tim's) wordpad program.
>
> This program takes a defined selection or a whole file and puts it in
> WordPad. From there, all I have to do is hit the printer icon. I don't know
> how to launch WordPad with a file AND instruct it to print that file. I
> don't know if more recent versions than mine of 4DOS allow you to pass
> keystrokes from a batch file to a Windows program, but I couldn't get that
> to happen with my very old version of 4DOS.
>
> Still, this is a very simple solution. All you have to do is assign to a
> key the commands to tys the file then run the wordpad.pgm (I have renamed
> that program to pad.pgm--I forget what Tim named it originally.)
>
> nn==bxt,y,s,q2bx,r,u,n, ,p,a,d,.,p,g,m,q2bxa,b,q2
>
> Following our gurus' advice, I eliminate commas where possible. After
> printing, and closing Wordpad, it aborts the review.tmp file created by tys.
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx