First post, by Hugh K
I know. DOSbox ain't for office work but for games. So please don't remind me of that. I have used DOSbox for many years on several Windows machines including Windows 10 without the slightest hitch. But I bought a new Dell desktop (yes, it has a parallel printer port) in January 2018 and this time I can't get my database/word-processor to print to the parallel printer port LPT1.
The DOSbox installations that I did in the past all went off without a hitch. This time I'm having trouble printing to LPT1. I want to print from Q&A for DOS, the old database/word processor by Symantec.
Here is what I did:
I downloaded DOSbox SVN-lf from https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox-svn-lfn/
Then I unzipped the file into a dedicated directory on drive C:
Then I added the following printer configuration to the end of the configuration file:
mount c c:\data\
c:
parallel1=file dev:lpt1
qados50\qa1.exe
exit
The DOS program runs fine but I cannot print to my parallel printer. The above mounting command have always worked in the past on my other computers but this time I always get the message "Waiting for Printer".
Question 1: Is it OK to have all the DOSbox files in one directory? If not, where should they be?
Question 2: Am I mounting the program incorrectly?