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Printing from DOS on XP
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04/02/2003 11:42:56
Jerry Tovar
Dana Corporation Dana It
Maumee, Ohio, United States
 
 
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01/02/2003 18:34:30
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00747770
Message ID:
00748906
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39
That's it. Thanks.


>>I inherited an old FoxPro 1.01 DOS application on an XP Pro PC. How can the application directed it's printing to a certain printer?
>>
>>Is there a DOS command that will do this. His other PC's are Win98 and the same app prints OK on those PCs.
>
>Take a look at the NET USE command-line utility. This will let you redirect a DOS printer port (e.g. LPT1) to an installed printer on the local machine (that printer must be shared) or a network printer.
NET USE LPT1 \\MyXPProPC\SharedPrinterName /persistent:y
>NET USE LPT1 \\NetworkServer\SharedPrinterName /persistent:y
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