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I have a Mannesmann Tally MT150 24pin dot matrix serial printer
connected to com2 on a 486 DX2 66 with 4 MB Ram (dos 6.22 and WFWG
3.11).
Originally I could not get the printer to print in dos or windows. I
have now got the printer to operate in windows by changing the port
settings on com2 from 19200 baud and hardware handshaking (internet
settings) to 9600 baud and xon/xoff handshaking.
Does 2 to 3 minutes to print out a fax header seem about right for a dot
matrix. The printer originally ran on an Olivetti M28 under Xenix and
seemed much faster, printing plain text mail shots, but I guess this is
due to Xenix's better coms handling than windows.

My real problem is printing to com2 in dos.
I have been using the Mode command  to redirect output from lpt1 to com2
but without success. Having read and re-read the dos help files for Mode
and Print, I have been issuing the following commands:

Mode com2 9600,n,8.1

Mode lpt1=com2

Print /d:com2 config.sys

Dos reports that config.sys is printing but there is no output from the
printer. If I type print again dos reports the printer may be off-line.
A friend of mine gave me a small program (which he wrote) which sends
plain text files to the serial port of your choice. This works fine and
the speed is excellent. However you need to re run the program for each
file you print and it can't be incorporated into dos programs such as
Sage Accounting etc.
Any ideas how to use Mode to redirect the print output ?

TIA :-)
Paul
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