>Hi,
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>A client has a USB printer. My FPDos app prints to LPT1. How do I capture printing to LPT1 and resend it to USB port *in the same machine*.
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>I tried the following instructions which work for a network printer, but WinME will not accept the second one.
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>NET USE lpt1 /DELETE
>NET USE lpt1 \\ThisMachineName\PrinterShareName

Unlike NT/W2K, W95/98/ME don't support redirecting local ports/devices to local shares.

MS has an article, http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q259/9/39.ASP but it isn't a lot of help.

If the printer has both parallel and USB connections, you could switch to the parallel connection.

You should be aware of another issue, however. The printer may only support printing from Windows (a so-called GDI printer). Dumping a raw string of ASCII to such a printer will do nothing, or produce garbage as the Windows printer driver must render the print job for the printer engine to print it.