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Re: USB ports - can no-one help?

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From: David Ayre
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:47

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Yes. I have tried outputing to PRN but that goes to the parallel port and I don't know what to use for the USB ports.

Cheers,

David



Tom Woodrow <tomwoodrow@comcast.net> wrote:
>David,
>
>Have you tried to do it to "old" way? What was the result?
>
>Tom Woodrow
>
>David Ayre wrote:
>> "David Ayre" <davidcayre@aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>When printers were connected to the normal parallel port, it was
>>>possible to open PRN or LTP1 as a file and write directly to it.
>>>This was useful with dot matrix printers.
>>>Is it possible to do this with a USB port, and if so, how would I
>>>go about it?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>David
>> 
>>

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