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Martin Foster

August Abolins

oxp: LPTn to USB

May 10, 2019
11:11 AM *

Hello August!

On 09.05.19 at 18:36, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>>>> No support for USB printers.
 MF>>>> No support for Wireless printers.

 AA>>> BTW.. considering that OXP seems to inherit direct references to legacy
 AA>>> LPT1/2/3 etc.. for configuration, maybe the hacks out there to redirect
 AA>>> LPT# to USB# might work?

 MF>> I wouldn't know about that but if a user has an old parallel port
 MF>> printer, that should work. Mine did back in the days when I used
 MF>> CrossPoint.

 AA> You can trick Windows by using the USB printer as a "network"
 AA> printer connected to LPT1.

 AA> net use LPT1: \\[Computer-Name]\Printer /PERSISTENT:YES

 AA> I don't have any printer connected to my OXP hosted pc, otherwise I would
 AA> confirm.   But I used this method several years ago to revitalize a
 AA> custom DOS program to work with a new USB printer.

Many thanks for that very useful information. Would you happen to know  
if that method would work for wifi printers.

Regards,
Martin

--- OpenXP 5.0.38
 * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)

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