[Ham-Computers] Parallel Printers and USB

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I won't go into the gruesome details but Microsoft apparantly has done 
something to W2K such that it will no longer run some 16 bit DOS programs.  Our 
accounting program is one such.  It still runs under XP but I don't have 
time right now to do an OS change.  I have an XP laptop but it only has USB 
ports.  Does anyone know of a way (hardware plus software I would presume) in 
which to simulate both LPT-1 and LPT-2 through a USB port such that both the 
software inside and the printers outside are happy?  Right now, I cannot 
print checks and can only print reports and invoices by printing them to file, 
cleaning up the file, and then printing it to the LAN printer.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480