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New On the Board and have a couple of Questions

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First post, by Martyn

Posted on 2010-04-06, 16:12

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I'm new on the board so some of my questions may be a little redundant:

I have an Older 16 bit dos application (Multi User) that works fine in the dos box "even Multi users and or multi dos boxes up at the same time" So all is good there.. However I'm running into problems sharing printers or for that matter gaining access to printers.. In XP 32-bit we simply used the NET USE
command.. however that is not available in the dos box.. any ides would be appreciated.. BTW I'm running this on Win7 64-bit Ultimate..
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Reply 1 of 1, by HunterZ

Posted on 2010-04-06, 20:36

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The official version of DOSBox does not support printers of any kind.

NET USE is a Win2K/XP specific command and is not supported by any version of DOS or Win9x as far as I know.

You might have luck if Win7 still lets you map printers to virtual LPT ports, and then use an unofficial build of DOSBox that has a printer/LPT passthrough patch.

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