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First post, by giapraki

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Thanks to DOSBox i am very close to taking a nice pack of day offs from the army as a Gift... 😀 I've managed to make a very old Store Management Apllication, written in... Pinacle (as they said to me) to work... Be Well Guyz... I love you! The application runs with no problem in XP. It didn't even run in the XP Command Line...

Anyway my problem is the following. I have connected a big old dot matrix printer in the XP computer which prints normaly a Test Page (Lexmark 1520 I think...).

So when i go in dosbox, i give :
echo Mike >>lpt1
echo Mike >>prn
and something of those WORKS, and the dot matrix prints Mike.

I cannot print through the application. That's my problem. If the application is run in Win98 with Command Line, it starts and prints normaly without configuring something else.

Why it cannot print through the application from DOSbox ??
The application has no other parameters to modify... it is only an exe file and some .DBF files i think.

Any ideas ?

Reply 1 of 1, by eL_PuSHeR

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Official DOSBox DOESN'T support printing because it's not very necessary for games. You could try browsing the DEVELOPMENT section of the forum for a CVS printing-enabled build.

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