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Foxpro for Dos

by rudydjohnson May 15, 2006 12:03AM PDT

I have a program written in Foxpro for dos. I works perfectly in WinXP except I cannot print from any of the computers if it does not have a parallel printer attached.

Any suggestions on how I can print from WinXP to a local USB printer with this dos program that only recognizes parallel?

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I usually have 2 solutions to this.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 15, 2006 2:02AM PDT

1. An USB to printer adapter such as http://www.usbgear.net/item_157.html that allows you to set the virtual printer port address to those old settings.

2. Examining the USB to printer port adapter device manager to see if such exists.

3. Install a PCI parallel port board.

I'm an old Clipper head so I've fixed this one a few times.

Then again I've also rewritten my code to send the report to a file and printed that too.

Bob

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