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Summary: redirecting non-PS to file

#1566
From: sommer
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 02:51
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Thanks to those who replied to my Q.
I ended up using LPTX700 which does exactly what I need and want.

>>I'm using a DOS program that expects to print directly to a dinky
>>parallel printer of some sort. The computer is on a Novell network
>>with an HPIIIsi in PS mode, so I can't print anything. 
>>
>>What I would like to do is redirect the output (from lpt1 or lpt2) to
>>a file so I could use some other utility to print it to the HPIIIsi or
>>transport by floppy to some other place. 

*FROM: pemakine@serifos.helsinki.fi
*
*     Well, another list :-) This is from simtel20.army.mil - from
*     it's index file:
*
*"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
*"LPT2DSK.ARC",1,9216,8,870325,"Capture LPT output to a disk file"
*"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
*"LPTX600.ARC",1,31596,8,870319,"Redirect printer output to a file"
*"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
*"LPTX700.ARC",1,48801,8,880206,"Updated LPT (redirect PRN to file)"
*"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
*"PRNDI802.ZIP",1,35640,8,920516,"COM/LPT port redir. to any other port or file"
*"PD1:","<MSDOS.PRINTER>",
*"PSTASH20.ARC",1,2830,8,890216,"Redirects lpt output to file"
*
*
*        The lptx-series programs have been used very much, so
*        propably the LPTX700 would be a good "buy".

+FROM: 	cellis@ds5000.dac.northeastern.edu
+	HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.Stanford.EDU
+	fritz@ra.csc.ti.com
+
+In DOS to trap printer output to a file, I have used a program which first
+appeared in PCMag, and is also on the disk which comes with Paul Somerson's
+PCMagazine DOS Powertools (Bantam).
+
+It is  PRN2FILE.COM
+
+I haven't had time to search, but I'm sure it's somewhere in the ftp-accessible
+files at wuarchive.wustl.edu  or  at simtel.
+
+It remaps LPT1: to whatever filename you have given, until you turn it off.
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