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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / May 2005Printing with DOS!
I'm trying to run an old DOS application on my new Macintosh. Computer hardware: Powermac G5 with Mac OS X 10.3.9 Printer: HP Business Inkjet 3000 connect to USB port on the Powermac Software: Virtual PC for Mac 7.0.1 Guest operating system: IBM PC DOS 7.0 I don't know how to configure the printing systeme correctly. I've told my application to send its output to a file to facilitate testing process. The file generated contains PCL escape sequences. I can print this test file directly on the Mac without problem (lpr test.pcl). When I try to print the exact same file inside the Virtual Machine with the command (copy test.pcl lpt1) the escape sequences are not interpreted correctly. Here is an extract: ----------------------------------------- (12U6.67h12.00V 2005/01/15 39488 ... ----------------------------------------- I can recognize the escape sequence (12U6.67h12.00V) followed by the text (2005/01/15 39488). I don't know if Virtual PC uses the "lpr" command to print on the Mac. If it's the case then, maybe the solution would be to add the "-o raw" parameter to the "lpr" command. But I don't have any idea how to configure Virtual PC to behave that way. I've called Microsoft Tech Support with no succes. They don't support people using DOS in Virtual PC. Does anyone have any idea how to configure printing in Virtual PC? Marc. There is a TON of help on DOS commands. Did you Google for any help? Try this one: http://www.computerhope.com/printhlp.htm I don't think this is a DOS problem. The DOS operating system isn't supposed to known that it is running on a Virtual PC. I think the problem is with the Virtual PC configuration or with the Mac OSX configuration. I've googled for many hours before asking in this newsgroup. As with any DOS program running under Windows, you probably need to "capture" the printer under Printer Settings / Properties / Details (Win98). Set it to LPT1 for most default DOS programs and for your experiments with printing from DOS commands. This assumes you have VPC and Windows set up correctly to print from Windows programs. See http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/aoaug/mac_osx.html#vpc Michael Paine > I'm trying to run an old DOS application on my new Macintosh. > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Marc. I'm running IBM PC DOS 7.0, this is a "pure" DOS Operating System, there is no Windows version involved at all in my configuration. I will look into the link you proviide... Printing from DOS has all sorts of issues... the big one being that you can't print multipage documents, IIRC. |
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