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I have a few things going on here, first I have a program that only runs in dos. I have only dos6.22 installed on this machine.
the program has print a feature and i can not exit the program to print or the data will be lost. What i want is to beable to type in the dos say prnt.exe file and say save to txtfile on c: or save to txtfile on a:. and when i get that figured out I am going to try to connect threw nics from a windows machine to see if i can see and move the file over to the windows machine and print from windows as a txt file in notepad or word pad. this has been on going and have done alot of research i have even used windowsme for usb support and a prnt file but winme is so flaky and glitchy that i am done wiht it.
If your program 'prints' to the screen, you may get by with:
prog.exe > somefile
If it prints to a printer port, you will probably need a 3rd party printer port capture utility.
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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Suggest you look for a dos utility program that automatically saves print to a disc file, rather than trying to use a dos command, which are not that comprehensive.
There used to be many of these programs around at the time.
Good Luck - Keep us posted.
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prnt2file.exe for dos is what i am going to try when i get a chance. i found alot of other programs but they all installed on windows only. if that works instead of saving to floppy i wil try to connect threw nic. and either map or have a file saved straight to the saved file to pull it over and print. any one been there and knows it works or not can let me know anytime now.
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Look for prn2file.COM from Ziff-Davis.
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Hi the prn2file works sometimes.
if 2 files are sent to be printed one right after the other the pnr2file will stop responding and the pc must be restarted. also if there is no floppy disk in a: when try to print then put a floppy in then try to print again the prn2file stops responding. Any body have advice or a work around. i think the dos program that i am running takes controll of the keyboard, to bad i was hopeing to make a hot key.
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Which one are you using?
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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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prn2file.com 1.0
Some reason the file stops gathering print data if the spot its directed to a: doesnt have a floppy in it, put in floppy and try again ,,, nothing, the batch file must error out. until pc is restarted.
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Since it's a TSR, the order of loading and/or other programs may be critical.
Try an explicit file:
prn2file c:\temp\my.txt
Maybe it will let go of the floppy.
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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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yeah thanks for youre response.
anyone have an idea how to keep the program going?
autoexec.bat a:prnt2file temp.txtstops gathering data if a floppy is forgotten one time. the program that is running can not be exited to do more dos commands and looses data if pc is restarted.
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 Yet another USB boot prob...
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Disk read error
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