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November 28, 2000 at 08:39 AM
jimdugmorecom

Redirecting lpt1 to a file

by jimdugmorecom . Updated 25 years, 5 months ago

I have some old batch files that used netware to redirect print output from DOS apps to files. The problem is we will be going to NT and I don’t know how to accomplish the equivalent of (capture create=path\filename) I’m really stuck on this one.I see that a network printer can be setup to print to a file that can be static or dynamic that’s great but it doesn’t solve my problem completely. The batch file runs unattended so if I were to use the dynamic option I’d need a way to fill in the text box popup. I was hoping that this could be done from the command line using NET USE LPT1: \\MACHINE\SHARE\FILENAME but that doesn’t see to work. Any help you can provide me would be greatly appreciated.

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