re: XP/DOS printing Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 7:50 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Terry (1 messages posted) I have just experienced the same issue. Have Three DOS software programs that were fine yesterday. Today I can't get any of them to print reports. They calculate fine within the program but now will not print. I called Gateway and the only thing the tech came up with was to reload the dos software. I may try that but actually I did load some new dos application software and it did not work either. I am running on xp professional. I removed the HP printer driver and reloaded, no luck. All windows based programs are fine. Guess I'll have to rely on my laptop and bring out the docking station. It uses win 2000. Have my hardware/network gut coming out tomorrow On Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 8:27 pm, C K wrote: >Pure DOS apps that use their own printer drivers are not supposed to be able to print >in XP. XP does not let those apps access resources directly, or at least that's >what the MS line is anyway. Interesting that it even worked at all. They will however >print on 9X systems just fine. Makes you wonder. Unfortunatly, I can't tell you >why it stopped printing as I have not seen a true DOS app yet that would print in >XP. There have been cases where an app could print to a file, (text) and then you >could print the file on XP but that's as close as I have come. Finally, depending >on the version of Word, it may not be a pure DOS version so it will print docs. >Is it possible that your Apps aren't pure DOS applications? If they were released >after 1995, they most likely aren't so they would probably print. If this is the >case, we have to look elsewhere for the problem. More info would help, such as the >App and version number or date of release.. C K > > Written in response to: re: XP/DOS printing (C K: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 8:27 pm) Responses to this message: re: XP/DOS printing (C K: Friday, December 20, 2002 at 10:51 am) re: XP/DOS printing (Ulf Michel: Friday, January 3, 2003 at 2:12 am) re: XP/DOS printing (Ulf Michel: Monday, January 6, 2003 at 1:04 am) All messages in this thread [show all] XP/DOS printing (Richard Smith: Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 11:09 am) re: XP/DOS printing (C K: Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 8:27 pm) re: XP/DOS printing (Terry: Thu, Dec 19, 2002, 7:50 pm) re: XP/DOS printing (C K: Fri, Dec 20, 2002, 10:51 am) re: XP/DOS printing (Ulf Michel: Fri, Jan 3, 2003, 2:12 am) re: XP/DOS printing (Ulf Michel: Mon, Jan 6, 2003, 1:04 am) re: XP/DOS printing (Joe P: Tue, Oct 7, 2003, 11:11 am) re: XP/DOS printing (Greg: Sat, Dec 21, 2002, 5:25 pm) re: XP/DOS printing (Phil: Fri, Oct 31, 2003, 1:50 pm) re: XP/DOS printing (mix2plix: Tue, Feb 17, 2004, 2:37 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum