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First post, by CJ_Reign

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Hi,

Im in the middle of working things out with printing to file while using a programme in Dos...but from the beginning.

Im working in a designing office and were working on a self-written programme that we used until win10 came along. In win7 we used Microsoft Virtual PC and all worked well. But Win10 does not supports Virtual PC, so we decided to go to Dosbox with hope to work it out ... but we didn't. Main thing is, before runing our self-written programme, we run prn2file.com and applying option: lpt1 to file. Next, we run our programme and when choosing to print data, it was printed directly to our set up file. And now, in win10 and Dosbox we cannot make it, although prn2file has been run with the same option printing to file. So now, whats this all about, even when Im using updated version of Dosbox under SVN-daum ... how we can achieve priting to file then? What I have learned, the data that may be printed into file is somewhere lost. Can anyone help us?

Thank you in advance,

Matt

Edit:
Came across Dosbox Megabuild...soemthing is working but when I choose to print data, an error in Dosbox Status Window appears under monit: "Warning: file creation failed E:\DOSBOX\PROFIL\LPT1"
Now question, is the name for printer in Dosbox' configuration file, section [parallel], writen invalid, or should I put only "lpt1" option? Or an error is somewhere else?

Reply 1 of 1, by Jorpho

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CJ_Reign wrote:

Im working in a designing office and were working on a self-written programme that we used until win10 came along. In win7 we used Microsoft Virtual PC and all worked well. But Win10 does not supports Virtual PC, so we decided to go to Dosbox with hope to work it out ...

That's probably not a good idea. Why not use VMware Player, or VirtualBox?

Came across Dosbox Megabuild...

Megabuild is very old. Stick with a version of SVN-Daum from last year; Megabuild offers no advantages over that.

is the name for printer in Dosbox' configuration file, section [parallel], writen invalid

Unless you post the relevant portion of your configuration file, how would we know?

You should be using a line like "parallel1=file dev:lpt1", as discussed in Printing from DOSBox .