print with dosbox

Question

I'm looking for a version of dosbox with print support I saw the answers to this question Using a printer in Dosbox but I didn't manage to make it work

Answer 1

echo Hello world! ^L > LPT1

that's a Control-L not the ^ (carrot) and an L

That should print "Hello world!" and spit the page out on the printer attached to LPT1. As far as printing to USB printers... forget it. With networked printers using windows networking shares, you can "capture" the printer to a port (LPT1-3) and follow the same/similar syntax.

----edit----- my Linux is leaking into my DOS. Fixed for DOS

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The dosbox default build does not include any support for parallel ports. There are 3rd party builds with these features added. One such can be found here: http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/

Answer 2

On the DOSBOX support wiki it says that printing is not currently supported. See:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page

You don't say which operating system you are using. If you're using Windows, you can use CMD.EXE where TheCompWiz's suggestion will work. That will even work with a USB printer (if it supports text printing, i.e. uses PCL as its language) as long as it's mapped to LPT1. And, if you use DOSPRN, you can even print to low-cost USB inkjets. DOSPRN is at

http://www.dosprn.com/