Al,

Thank you very much for your help. I believe that printer does have a parallel port. Will try that.

Certainly the Universal Thread has very knowledgeable people. I am giving you three stars.

Alex

>>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
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>Unlike NT/W2K, W95/98/ME don't support redirecting local ports/devices to local shares.
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>MS has an article, http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q259/9/39.ASP but it isn't a lot of help.
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>If the printer has both parallel and USB connections, you could switch to the parallel connection.
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>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.