remote printing problems

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3 total messages Started by Ray O'Brien Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:21

#78

Author: Ray O'Brien
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:21

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Hi all,
    I am having trouble printing remotely on a lan (lanlink 5x & multilink)
through certain programs. Everything prints fine on the pc with the printer
attached but the remote pc works for print-screen, print, 123 with remote
lpt1 configured. It will not print in 123 with lpt1 configured as local.

    The application I really need to get working is in ms compiled basic, I
have tried the following qbasic programs.
 
10 lprint "test"

and this gives device unavailable

but

10 open "lpt1" for output as #1
20 write #1, "test"

works ok. If anyone has any ideas or workarounds for this please let me know.
Please reply via email if possible.

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Re: remote printing problems

#80

Author: Matthias Schumann
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:40

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In article <179@chromc.CHROMCRAFT.COM> rayo@chromc.CHROMCRAFT.COM (Ray O'Brien) writes:
>Hi all,
>    I am having trouble printing .....

sorry, that I can't help You with this problem. I just want to
take the chance to ask another question about printing from 
Basic. 

Is it possible in BASICA or GWBASIC to dump the graphics-screen from a
program through a BAISC-function or anything else but the PRTSCRN-key  ??? 
In elder GWBASIC there was a function called LCOPY, which is not 
documented in the newest manuals. The statement is interpreted and 
leads to no visible result without causing a SYNTAX ERROR.
In BASICA I havn't heard of any dump-statement.

Ciao 
     MATT

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Re: remote printing problems

#83

Author: Leonard Erickson
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:15

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schumanm@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Matthias Schumann) writes:

>Is it possible in BASICA or GWBASIC to dump the graphics-screen from a
>program through a BAISC-function or anything else but the PRTSCRN-key  ??? 
>In elder GWBASIC there was a function called LCOPY, which is not 
>documented in the newest manuals. The statement is interpreted and 
>leads to no visible result without causing a SYNTAX ERROR.
>In BASICA I havn't heard of any dump-statement.

All you have to do is load Graphics.com, and then have your program
do an INT 5. I used to have a 4 or 5 line BASICA program that would
create the required code in RAM and call it.

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