Using DOSbox megabuild you can map USB and network print queues like in the original DOS.
DOS has the net use command to map an LPT port to a network-shared printer.
For local USB printers you share the printer then map it to an LPT port like this:
net use LPT1 \\comp_name\ptr_share_name
In megabuild it's like this in the config file:
printer1=\\comp_name\ptr_share_name
This maps LPT1 for the DOS program running in DOSbox.

Hi All, New to the forums and very thankful for the information you provided. Very helpful! I use an old program called Q&A from the late 1980's and early 1990's. It is a database program originally created by Symantec. DosBox Mega has been a lifesaver and your instructions, especiallly ripsaw8080, have helped me.

My new issue is that I can't print addresses on envelopes because they come out perpendicular to the envelope. I looked under the configuration file and it defines paper as 8.5 x 11 which I think is the problem. Can there be 2 different sizes - one for standard paper and one for envelopes - so that I can print both sizes?

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RepWolf wrote:

I looked under the configuration file and it defines paper as 8.5 x 11 which I think is the problem. Can there be 2 different sizes - one for standard paper and one for envelopes - so that I can print both sizes?

Perhaps you should rephrase your question, as I'm not clear what you're getting at. Alternatively, why don't you rotate your envelopes when you put them in your printer?

I'm not sure how old your program is, but in the olden days of non-graphical printing, printing rotated text just wasn't possible.

P.S. Megabuild 6 is now considerably out of date and you may want to consider the SVN Daum version, which has mostly the same patches.

Hi Jorpho, Thank you for your quick response. I will try rotating the envelope and see if it works. However, under "real" dos the envelopes print out fine. For now, I have been using Windows XP dos to run Q&A. "Real" Dos also works under Windows 7 32 bit (which is amazing that a 25 year old program works on it) but I can't get it full screen so my solution has been DosBox.

I will also look into the SVN Daum version. Thanks again. Will keep the board updated in case anyone finds a similar issue.

IIRC XP drivers work on Windows 7 and will allow you to run command prompt full-screen.

RepWolf wrote:

However, under "real" dos the envelopes print out fine.

Do you have an option to select your printer driver somewhere in the program? Do you have the same printer selected in DOSBox that you have selected when you run the program under real DOS?

Try vDos: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/
It will allow you to print to any printer installed by Windows .

Halo guys and mod

about dosbox megabuild 6

Can anyone help me with the link of dosbox megabuild 6 (that can print in dos) , i can not find that software anymore, the link is death,
Anyone can help me ? please mail me the software in just.onez80@gmail.com.

thanks befaore and after

Megabuild 6 is very old. Use vDos.

Thank for suggestion Mr. Collector

I find vDos and try it, i think is easy to use, but the result of print out is to small (maybe 75% from normal / 100%) , so the print result not full fill my Form exactly, any suggestion ?

thanks

Install a PDF printer (there's one included with Foxit Reader) and print to a PDF instead. Then scale the PDF as you need to.

Did you read the Printing.pdf document of vDos?
You should be able to scale and position the printout at will.

Halo Mr. Jorpho + Mr.JosSchaars

Thanks for suggestion, PDF printer i will try it latter, i think we can play around vdos configuration or setting for a while, anyone know setting for vdos to change scale and font ? i try too but nothing change.

sorry for my bad english

It’s all explained in the Printing.pdf document, you would supply the HORZ:, VERT: and FONT: directives.

Halo Mr.JosSchaars

thanks for suggestion, i already read it, and finally i just write on the config.txt on my folder document that i use to print out (i mean config.txt must copy to folder that i working for) i put LPT1 = RAW in config.txt, and everything is OK, when i print out, it is like i want to be, Normal Print.
Thanks for any kind suggestion and help Guys...

Here is a different wrinkle:

I installed Windows 3.1 inside of DosBox and amazingly it works!

Now I am having trouble printing. I am running Quattro Pro for windows in Windows 3.1 but can't figure out how to print.

I am already using DOSBox SVN-Daum, but there is some essential step that I am missing.

Any suggestions?

Try vdos

drdbc54 wrote:

I am already using DOSBox SVN-Daum, but there is some essential step that I am missing.

Any suggestions?

Without knowing what steps you have taken or what results you are seeing, the best anyone here can do is randomly guess.

Dominus wrote:

Try vdos

Unless, I'm mistaken you can't install Windows 3.1 in vdos. At least when I tried it failed.