[Ham-Computers] DOS Ap Printing to Network Printer (was USB Cable Length

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

OK.  Bought a 10' USB extension cable and the HP Office Jet is now 
connected to the XP laptop.  And passed the test page test.

However, under XP (and 2000), you cannot set the port to LPT1, but only to 
the Virtual USB port that gets created.  And of course no DOS ap knows about 
USB (or none that I know of, anyway).  So I ran the Print troubleshooter 
and it suggested redirecting LPT1 to a shared printer using the Net.exe 
command.  So I did that, after I figured out that the name of the print server in 
this setup was the name of the computer.  The system reported that the 
command completed successfully, meaning that anything sent to LPT1 should have 
been redirected to the USB port and then to the HP.  The DOS ap was happy so 
the report went somewhere.  But it never came out of the HP.  I also tried 
redirecting it to the Xerox LAN printer but same results.

First question is, given that there is no physical LPT1 in this box, should 
it have worked?  The OS seemed happy with it.  It isn't just some glitch 
with the particular DOS program either because I tried it with another one 
(PFM) and that didn't hang up or anything but no print.

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