On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 10:17, Bryan Kilgallin <kilgal...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> I wish to print from a FreeDOS PC. That connects via Samba to an Ubuntu
> server. That speaks via Ethernet to a Brother GDI printer. František has
> been advising me on this project.
>
> On the FreeDOS PC:
> * LMHOSTS lists the printer against its IP address; and
> * LOGON.BAT lists the server and print queue, and
> specifies "net use LPT2:, with the server, print queue,
> and password.
That looks good! Great progress from when you first asked.
> But I cannot get PRINT to work!
OK, question 1: why do you need the PRINT command? It's a background
spooler. It is not in any way needed for DOS printing.
> {PRINT README.TXT}
Did you not specify to print to LPT2:?
> Next I read
> "Device to direct Print [PRN=0]".
So it's not going to LPT2: – it's going to PRN:
[1] You don't need PRINT. To test if printing works, just do
copy readme.txt lpt2:
[2] If you *do* want background printing, you need to tell PRINT where
to send the data:
PRINT /D:LPT2: readme.txt
https://web.csulb.edu/~murdock/print.html
If you want to set the default DOS printer, you can use the MODE command. E.g.
mode lpt2:
https://my.okidata.com/MAN-380.NSF/WebBPXContents/7B4C04EE632B2D93852562190053A902?OpenDocument
But note that most DOS 3rd party apps will probably ignore this
setting. DOS only has very basic plain-text printing support, with no
device drivers, so almost all DOS apps implemented their own printer
support with device drivers to enable different font sizes, *bold* and
_underline_ and /italics/ and so on.
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