I have a user who is running Win95/sr2 on a IBM compat. PC. He uses some DOS based pgms also.
He has two printers hooked up thru a soft switch (it has no mechanical switch). When he was running Windows 3.1/DOS 6.22, he used to just execute a small bat file to PRIME the particular printer he wanted to print to (a laser jet on port B, or a dot matrix on port C of the soft switch).
The batch file consisted of the follow cmd:
echo *port=b* > prn for the laser jet
echo *port=c* > prn for the dot matrix
It worked fine in both dos 6.22 and Windows 3.1!!
Question is: how to get it to work (now that he is running Windows-95) when he wants to run DOS programs under Windows-95??
I DO NOT want to have to go to PRINTERS in Windows and select the one he wants to print to as the default and then run the DOS program, because then he has to remember to reset it after he is done!
Is there a way to set up a second psuedo printer port (LPT2:) that will work??
Installing a second parallel port card