From cb54d52206ce81a86ae7f6590b90a57a501b79f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:37:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (MS-DOS Printing): Mention that printer port can be redirected via Control Panel. --- man/msdog.texi | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/msdog.texi b/man/msdog.texi index 2115874df77..78ceb251fdc 100644 --- a/man/msdog.texi +++ b/man/msdog.texi @@ -459,6 +459,11 @@ material to the printer connected to the machine @code{joes_pc}. After this command, setting @code{printer-name} to @code{"LPT2"} should produce the hardcopy on the networked printer. + With some varieties of Windows network software, you can instruct +Windows to capture a specific printer port such as @code{"LPT2"} and +redirect it to a networked printer via the @w{@code{Control +Panel->Printers}} applet instead of @samp{net use}. + Some printers expect DOS codepage encoding of non-ASCII text, even though they are connected to a Windows machine which uses a different encoding for the same locale. For example, in the Latin-1 locale, DOS -- 2.39.2