On 21/04/2021 06:06, Michael Brutman wrote:
If you have a printer that is network enabled and it speaks Postscript,
PCL, Epson ESC P2, or plain text then you can "print to a file" under
DOS and then use Netcat to send the file to your printer.
+1. I used such method in the past, although I use
This is an old trick and I have it documented in the mTCP PDF
documentation. Here is a quick overview.
If you have a printer that is network enabled and it speaks Postscript,
PCL, Epson ESC P2, or plain text then you can "print to a file" under DOS
and then use Netcat to send the file to your pri
Hi,
I've not had a lot of energy or motivation to work on FreeDOS lately.
So even these are a few months old. But hopefully somebody will still
find these useful. (Note that these are not proper FD "packages", only
random .ZIPs of a few local rebuilds.)
So I was messing around with AWK, SED, and
Well I'm admittedly late to the party on this one, but I guess I'll
chime in anyway.
I was born in '86 so by the time I started playing on computers it was
in the Windows 95 days, and my first time actually using a computer with
any real idea of what I was doing was on Windows 98. By that tim
On 20 Apr 2021 at 10:41, Ralf Quint wrote:
> dreaded (from the viewpoint of operability in DOS) USB connected
> printers. Finding USB drivers, given that the printer is software
> compatible with DOS as mentioned above, will likely be an exercise in
> futility. If someone has a surefire way of doi
On 20 Apr 2021 at 10:49, Ralf Quint wrote:
> If you are talking laser printers, then that might exclude printers
> that are Postscript only, as they require some software on the
> computer side to translate plain text into a Postscript data stream
> that the printer understands. Not such a big de
Awesome! I was about to install 1.2 on an old ThinkPad I've got but I
think I'll wait and give the RC a go.
On 4/20/2021 5:39 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
Clear your calendar and get ready!
FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 is only days away.
RC4 is in it’s final stage of testing and tweaking.
There are loads of
Hi Eric,
inspired by your mail (and also help from others in the list! Thank you,
folks!) I did the following:
- I made a simple check of booting times:
(startup when I hit the computers power button till the moment the
system is working)
FreeDOS starting from HD
On 4/20/2021 8:24 AM, Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user wrote:
I believe you have to install DOS USB drivers first.
It's worse than that. I've tried to get many different printers
working under Linux (which generally has pretty good hardware support)
and it turns out that a lot of manufacturers cut
On 4/20/2021 7:59 AM, Thomas Desi wrote:
If using a USB keyboard (and USB mouse), there is the problem that
when starting the USB driver (USBUHCI from Bret Johnsons USButils
collection), the Keyboard stops working. So you can’t start the
keyboard driver next, which seems should done to get so
I agree that booting to a live Linux instance would be a better solution
here. I've had to do this many times and honestly it doesn't really
matter what live image you use. Mint is fine. I personally prefer
Ubuntu MATE or Xubuntu but it doesn't really matter. It should give you
access to th
On 4/20/2021 2:39 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
Clear your calendar and get ready!
FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 is only days away.
RC4 is in it’s final stage of testing and tweaking.
There are loads of changes.
Possibly more changes from RC3-RC4 than there was going from 1.2 to 1.3-RC1.
:-)
Looking forward
On 21 Apr 2021 at 0:00, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
> I had transferred data from my DOS PC to my Linux PC via a USB-2
> stick. But I thought that I might do something as simple as printing
> text, directly from the DOS machine.
>
So there's another solution, one I already hinted at:
Install Samba on
Hi, Bryan,
because I am fiddling with similar questions.
(Can’t compete anywhere near to the proficient replies of Eric and Frantisek
though!)
If using a USB keyboard (and USB mouse), there is the problem that when
starting the USB driver (USBUHCI from Bret Johnsons USButils collection), the
K
Hi Thomas,
> If using a USB keyboard (and USB mouse), there is the problem that
> when starting the USB driver (USBUHCI from Bret Johnsons USButils
> collection), the Keyboard stops working. So you can’t start the
> keyboard driver next, which seems should done to get somewhere.
The trick would
...just to follow up on what others have said, Bryan's printer is too
old to support PDF, but it is a pretty decent color laser apparently,
likely supports PCL5 in "HP emulation" mode, and something called
"BR-script (PostScript layer 3 emulation)" which I hope gets rendered
in the printer too,
> I believe you have to install DOS USB drivers first.
It's worse than that. I've tried to get many different printers
working under Linux (which generally has pretty good hardware support)
and it turns out that a lot of manufacturers cut corners on their
devices and don't support standard print
On 20 Apr 2021 at 16:59, Thomas Desi wrote:
> Regarding printing I think there are two basic concepts:
> Using fonts from the printer (I call this "generic", but maybe this
> is my private lingo) or using graphics from the computer.
> As I am only interested in printing out pure text (A-Z, 1-0
On 20 Apr 2021 at 16:21, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Bryan,
>
> I believe you have to install DOS USB drivers first. And actually it
> could work better to use the NETWORK for printing, because DOS (wired
> LAN) network drivers are more evolved than DOS USB drivers and you can
> use DOS versions of N
Dear Mr. Kilgallin,
your request is less obvious than may have initially seemd to you.
DOS knows an OS-level "device" called LPT1. And, most software for
DOS that needs to print, can use this software-level LPT1 device
(using a DOS service to print).
DOS and BIOS work together to forward data
Hi Bryan,
I believe you have to install DOS USB drivers first. And actually
it could work better to use the NETWORK for printing, because DOS
(wired LAN) network drivers are more evolved than DOS USB drivers
and you can use DOS versions of NETCAT or other tools to copy the
contents you want to pr
I had transferred data from my DOS PC to my Linux PC via a USB-2 stick.
But I thought that I might do something as simple as printing text,
directly from the DOS machine.
I wrote:
I have just connected my Brother HL-3150CDN laser printer to my Dell
OptiPlex GX270.
My printer usually receive
I have just connected my Brother HL-3150CDN laser printer to my Dell
OptiPlex GX270. I made a test text document, and I tried just to print
it. That didn't work, but I noticed the following advice:
"Device to direct Print [PRN=0]".
What do I need to do?
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Cool! You never know, I might finally get around to finishing putting
together my 486 PC. That'll be fun!
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, 10:40 Jerome Shidel, wrote:
> Clear your calendar and get ready!
>
> FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 is only days away.
>
> RC4 is in it’s final stage of testing and tweaking.
>
> There
Clear your calendar and get ready!
FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 is only days away.
RC4 is in it’s final stage of testing and tweaking.
There are loads of changes.
Possibly more changes from RC3-RC4 than there was going from 1.2 to 1.3-RC1.
:-)
Jerome
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