Re: DOS printing under VMware

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

I'll try it out - yes. It returns the message Microsoft(R) Windows DOS.

Also I haven't tried the 'solution family' you've been describing on
VirtualBox yet. I should try that again and see if a new version will
allow Xy4 to access the host drive. (I should have tried Xy3 as well,
but didn't think of that.) May not have much time for the next couple
of days. I should have registered a bug report to the VirtualBox people too - -


Many thanks.

At 08/04/2014 17:34, you wrote:
> 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!