Dosemu will not print to network printers

[Jim Cornette]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Subject says it all.
> I have 2 networked printers. Both are set up in printer administration 
> to use lpd/lpr. Both print from OpenOffice etc. and both print from the 
> command line with 'lpr -P NetPrinter some_file_name'. The printer names 
> are listed in /etc/hosts.
> 
> However, whatever I do, I cannot get a DOS accounting program nor M$ 
> Word 5.0 to print to any output at all.
> 
> I have tried myriad combinations of lines in dosemu.conf including
> 
> $_printer = "NetPrinter"
> $-printer = "lpr"
> and
> $_printer = "lpd://192.168.1.11/lp0"
> 
> And various versions of the following line, including making the 
> $_printer definition a null "" and putting the entire command in the 
> following:
> 
> #$_printer_command = "lpr -l, lpr -l, lpr -l"
> 
> 
> The instructions strongly imply that this should "just work".  HA!
> 
> Anyone have any ideas/ btw this is all as root...
> 
> Geoff
> 

Don't you need to map the printers to either a com or lpt port for DOS 
programs to be able to print?

Jim

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