[ale] getting dosemu to print to lpt1

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Well, I may have asked too soon.  In case someone else has the same 
question, here is what I found.  I'm inclined to believe that this isn't 
the ideal way to do it, but it seems to work.  The documentation that 
I've found all seem to talk about two files, the /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf 
file and the ~/.dosemurc file.  I haven't found an automagically 
generated ~/.dosemurc file anywhere, but the docs do say that the syntax 
for the two are identical.  So, since I was confident that I wouldn't be 
overwriting something that wasn't broken, I decided to copy the 
/usr/local/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf file (that's not the default path, I 
don't think) to ~/.dosemurc.  I then started dosemu back up, and did a 
dir >> lpt1, and it worked.  So, for whatever reason, /etc/dosemu.conf 
(which was a symbolic link from /usr/local/dosemu/conf/dosemu.conf) 
didn't even appear to be being read.  Anyway, it seems to be working now.
--
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Nathan J. Underwood
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Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> I have an old (circa 1984) app running in dosemu (works really well, 
> using the FreeDOS that came with it), but I'm having some trouble 
> printing.  It's on a FC1 box running dosemu-1.2.1.0, and the app is 
> trying to print to LPT1.  I've edited the dosemu.conf file, and setup 
> the $_printer var to "lp", "lpr -l" (necessary sometimes for cups), and 
> just "lpr".  I've verified that the printer is working, and that cups is 
> working (printed a test page from cups).  I've also done an ls | lpr -P 
> hp5000, which worked fine.  When I try to print from my little MS DOS 
> app (via dosemu) though, I get the following error:
> 
> lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm going to continue googling, but I'm not sure what more 
> I'm gonna find.
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