• Redirect Lpt1 To File

Chapter 7 - How to capture the parallel port's output (PRN:, LPT1:, LPT2. LPT9:) and serial port's output (COM1.

Redirect Lpt1 To File

COM9:) On Unix and Linux systems, redirecting the print output to a file is a very easy task, but on some old DOS or Windows Console Mode applications, the programmer did not give the end user this ability. In this case you can redirect the COM or LPT output to a file for Printfil, even if a serial or parallel printer is physically connected to that port (for example a Windows-only Laser printer), and even if the COM or LPT port is not physically installed on the PC (on new machines, serial ports and parallel ports are no more included nowadays, since USB ports replaced them). Printfil can capture a COM or LPT port on any Windows NT-based system (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 2012, Windows 10). On Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME you can capture LPT ports too, but you cannot capture COM ports.

If Printfil detects a DOSBox version installed that supports the choosen LPT port or COM port (DOSBox MegaBuild 6, DOSBox SVN Daum or vDos for parallel ports), it asks you if you want to automatically configure it to capture the port even in that emulated DOS environment. In the DOS age you were limited to use 3 parallel ports (max), each one of them could connect a printer (so 3 printers max. Could be used on a single PC). With Printfil you no more have such limit, because even by capturing a single LPT port, that data can be forwarded to any Windows printer installed in the Control Panel (so, even if the DOS program prints to LPT1: only, its print jobs can be sent even to 300 or 3000 different printers). Normally then you no more need to setup the DOS program to print to different LPT ports to manage different printers; just leave it printing to LPT1: (for example) and let Printfil 'address' the final printer (for example by enabling the 'Choose' option in its own configuration dialog to ask the end user for the destination printer each time a job has been captured, or by the optional CFG file to send the job to a specific printer without user intervention, as described in Chapter 3). Anyway, Printfil allows even to capture multiple parallel ports and serial ports simultaneously on the same PC.

I need to capture the data going to LPT1 and save it in a disk file. In Windows XP. The next step is to redirect my LPT1 hardware port to the printer with the NET. COM9: and redirect the print jobs. You can set your application to print to an ascii file, or you can let Printfil automatically. 2000, XP, 2003, Vista. Thief 2 patch downloads. Hello,i have an old dos program that only prints to serial and lpt ports. I need to have the output endup in a simple text file. There used to be away in dos to.

To do so, you have to, as described on Chapter 13, each one used to capture a single LPT port or COM port.