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I really do mean DOS.  The problem is I have a legacy app to maintain.  I
run it in a dos box and it works fine, producing printed output.  I have
been asked to modify it so that the output can be distributed
electronically.  I have investigated several pseudo-printers which take
print output from an app and convert it to electronic form (eg the Acrobat
'printer') but my legacy app only produces character output to a port (I use
LPT3 and assign that to a Windows printer, which allows it to print fine).

I really can't convert it to a Windows app; it is written in Clipper and it
would take a disproportionate time to convert it.  I can make modifications
to it and re-compile the app.  I know that Clipper send to the printer as a
device, so I can re-compile with a pipe address instead of LPT3 (then use a
simple windows app to collect the character text and distribute it by
e-mail).  This almost works, but I have come up against the access denied
security issue I posted.  It is particularly frustrating, I was prepared for
it not to work at all, but to 'almost' work is cruel !


The only other alternative I can think of is to save the output as a file,
then run a second app to import and post it.  I think this would work, but
not as 'smoothly'.

Many thanks for the reply,

Denville.

"Early Ehlinger" <early@respower.com> wrote in message
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> Do you really mean DOS, as in MS-DOS, the 16-bit operating system that is
> now defunct?
>
> Or do you mean a Win32 console-mode program?
>
> If the latter, using a named pipe is exactly the same in console mode as
it
> is in windows mode.  In fact, everything is the same in console mode as it
> is in windows mode, except that Windows has created a console for you
before
> launching your program.  You can even create pop-up windows without any
> problem from a console.
>
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