First post, by eurobob12
I've been searching the forums for a while and I am stumped. I have ubuntu 9.0.4 on a machine and i need to run and old DOS based program for point of sale. The pos needs to see and lpt1 port and thats why i went with the mega build. This is the odd part of the set up. I have the windows version of the mega build. Wine is the ubuntu emulator that installed and opens the mega build. I have been changing the config file trying to get the printer to work, with no luck. I have tried to change the parallel to print to file, printer and everything else. When it is set to printer, the pos program will prompt a print dialog, but then dosbox locks up. only when i shut dosbox off hard does anything appear in my print status. Never prints though. my printer is located on /dev/lp0 but i cant get anything to print. I think i am either missing some syntax in the set up of the parallel section of the config file, or maybe its just not possible. The printer is a dot matrix and is installed and works with ubuntu alone. The pos program has its own drivers built in for dot matrix printers. any help would be great.