From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 8:28:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.Surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEDA37BCE5 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) Received: from ilka.ncptiddische.net (pC19F69A2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [193.159.105.162]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00832 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:27:39 +0200 Received: from tempest.ncptiddische.net (tempest.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by ilka.ncptiddische.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA01818 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:28:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@frozenfeelings.com) From: Nils Holland Organization: NightCastle Productions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: A printer question... Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:19:02 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041917283700.00285@tempest.ncptiddische.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On one computer over here there's a Lexmark 3200 printer attached. This printer only works properly when its driver can run under Windows, there's no way to get it to print under a DOS-only or FreeBSD system. There is, however, something one can do: When Windows is running, a DOS-Program in a DOS-Box *can* print if it is using a PCL-printer (one of the many HP-deskjet drivers). If such a driver is used in a DOS-Box, the Windows printer driver will handle the PCL-to-Printer-specific-format-translation. The only problem is that Windows does always have to be running. In pure-DOS mode, one can print to a file and then, once Windows is running again, copy that file to the printer port (I think using copy file.ext lpt1). Again, the Windows driver will do the rest. Having that in mind, I wonder if (andf how) I can achieve that FreeBSD prints to a file, using a PCL/Deskjet printer. If that *would* work, all I had to do was starting Windows later and copy that file to the printer. Any ideas are welcome. Greetings, Nils To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message