Hi Denise,

On SOME operating systems (not W2k for sure, but I believe on Windows 98 it works:

Leave the printer as is on USB. Make sure NO OTHER PRINTER is physically conntected to the LPT1 port on that machine.
Share out the USB printer and ensure the printer shared name is 8 chars or less with NO spaces in the shared name.
Go to a dos window and issue the net use command to use that same shared USB printer on the lpt port too (yes it will show up on LPT1 and the USB port now): net use LPT1 \\machinename\sharedprintername

I have done this successfully but it only works on certain Operating systems.

>Hi,
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>Hope this is in the right area... unsure where to put it (be nice :-) ).
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>I have a client for which I occasionally support an old FoxDOS program. Has been working fine for them (although I'm trying to talk them into upgrading to something newer) until now. They just got a new printer that uses a USB cable. Therefore, the reports that are set to go to LPT1 in the FoxDOS program aren't printing. What can I do to fix this?
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>I tried going into the printer's properties and checking LPT1, but that unchecks the USB box and I can't do that becuase then (presumably) none of her other programs will work correctly.
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>Help!!??? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.