05-26-15 08:10 TOM WALKER wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Found New Hardware   
      
    TW> @MSGID: <5564EF3B.13941.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    EV> TW> @MSGID: <5561AA83.13929.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
   Howdy! Tom,   
   -snip-   
    EV> TW> I searched around and found out I can Simulate an LPT port in   
    EV> TW> XP by using the following steps:   
      
    EV> TW> Do a "Right Mouse" Click on the Printers Name   
    EV> TW> Choose "Properties"   
    EV> TW> Click on hte "Ports" tab   
    EV> TW> Rembember the USB port name   
    EV> TW> Click on "Enable Printer Pooling" and check the box   
    EV> TW> Scroll through the listed ports and click on "LPT1" port   
    EV> TW> Click on "Apply" and "Ok"   
      
    EV>That sounds easier to do than the method Jeff Guerdat said for me to do   
    EV>to allow SLMR to print to a USB printer.   
      
    EV>I have a Batch File that uses a NET USE command to do what You helped   
    EV>Your wife to do to print with her new printer.   
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    TW> As a side note on what I suggested it only works on the host   
    TW> computer if one is using a Network printer.   
      
   I would think if the printer ain't physically connected to a computer   
   it w/couldn't show up in the Printers and Fax page.   
      
   I tried printing a page over my network once many years ago, iirc it   
   took a long time to print out the page than if I had copied the file to   
   a floppy and put it in the computer that had the printer connected to   
   it and print it out.   
      
   I have File Sharing unchecked on my Vista pc because I don't want it to   
   be able to do that with the printer on the xp box.   
      
   Can't remember right now if XP can do file sharing or not.   
      
   MS-DOS 5.0 and IBM PC-DOS seemed easier to work with Windows 3.1 than   
   what I have now to work with.   
   73   
      
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