First, let me say I know almost nothing about DOS. (I'm a Mac user) I am a member of an radio controlled car club and we're using some DOS software to count laps for our races. The races are structured into heats and mains. We run 8 heats per round and 3 rounds of heats, and one round of mains. We like to post the results for all the heats and mains on our web site (http://www.rcrcr.com) The trick is, although the software prints results after each race (heat or main) it only has the ability to export the "Main's" results to a TXT file to be used later. I would like to have TXT files of all the results. I have been told that I should "create a generic text printer" and print these results to a file as the program generates the printout. I don't have a clue how to do this... any help? Thanks in advance Scott

You have a nice indoor track. My friends and I use to run electrics in the parking lot. Question - does your timing system automatically time the heats or is it a push a key system? I was/is trying to make a cheap version of an rf/id lap counter. So far can't find a cheap high resolution detection system. Any way to your problem. The Generic Printer idea works if your software works in a Windows DOS box. If you want to stay in DOS there are several port capture software, like prn2file, which captures the output to LPT1: and saves it to a file. That will do the job for you.