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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    oxp: LPTn to USB    |
|    09 May 19 18:36:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d8404c64       REPLY: 2:240/2188.31@fidonet d841f03e       PID: OpenXP/5.0.38 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       Hello Martin!              ** 09.05.19 - 09:00, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:               MF>>> No support for USB printers.        MF>>> No support for Wireless printers.               AA>> BTW.. considering that OXP seems to inherit direct references to legacy        AA>> LPT1/2/3 etc.. for configuration, maybe the hacks out there to redirect        AA>> LPT# to USB# might work?               MF>I wouldn't know about that but if a user has an old parallel port        MF>printer, that should work. Mine did back in the days when I used        MF>CrossPoint.                     You can trick Windows by using the USB printer as a "network" printer        connected to LPT1.              net use LPT1: \\[Computer-Name]\Printer /PERSISTENT:YES              I don't have any printer connected to my OXP hosted pc, otherwise I would        confirm. But I used this method several years ago to revitalize a custom        DOS program to work with a new USB printer.                      ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.38        * Origin: o,,,,o§ø`ø§o,,,,o§ø`ø§o,,,,o (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/17 229/354 426 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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