ctrl+f2 after the program is done printing

Thanks for answer, but it doesn´t work.
How can you print?
What i´m doing wrong?

in windows i do this:
net use lpt1: \\servername\printer

and in dosbox i do this:
copy file.xyz lpt1

but it doesn´t work 🙁

and in dosbox i do this:
copy file.xyz lpt1

And it still doesn't work if you send the feed end (ctrl-f2 as hal said,
but maybe check that in the mapper or remap it to something that you
are absolutely sure is a free key combination).

Why don't you print the file in xp anyways?

this is an dos application and the user shouldn´t know that xp is running behind.

can i print without pressing ctrl + F2 ?

Yes, but if the page isn't full you won't see what you printed
if the file you sent to the printer was less than a complete page.

Is there no chance to print small files?

Well it works fine, just if you wanna see what you printed you got to hit ctrl-f2.

well we could (if we supported the printing builds of ykhwong, (which we don't! (we have one of ourself which we do support though))) add a timer to print a page if there hasn't been any new data for 10 seconds.

In my stuff is some logic that it feeds the page if the program terminates,
don't know if that works with plain copy> though but it was working
quite nicely for me.

I'm not entirely sure. I think the forced pagefeeding was in the dos_terminate code.
Which isn't used for internal commands like copy

is there a chance to print smal files or not?
i can´t see an answer^^

i can´t see an answer

Maybe try it with reading or something similar.

i shoult add an timeout but how can i do this?
which command i need?

the answer:
Printing builds of ykhwong are NOT supported by the dosbox authors.

So you have 2 options.
1. You try to convince somebody to improve the ykhwong printer code.
2. You use the printer build of the DOSBox authors.

Both options might end up costing you money or other things to persuade people.
Maybe somebody will improve the printer build from ykhowng for free. Who knows ?

Big Thanks for help

When using ykhwong's build you have to open the dosbox.conf file and set disney=false.