Sorry, I haven't done parallel port reading before. Hopefully someone will jump in who has done this.

>I need to do it with LPT1 - let the host machine think it is successfully printing to a printer while, in fact, the output is read and then written to a file.
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>>>Hi anybody know of a DOS or Windows utility to capture printer output from a UNIX system and writing the contents to a file?
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>>If the printing is done serially, you could connect the line to your com port and use MSCOMM to read the byte stream.