[BC] DOS programs on Windows 2000 O/S

Stu Engelke engineer at nycradio.com
Fri Apr 30 15:17:38 CDT 2010


I'm doing printing from a .bat file in Win 2k but it has been a long 
time since I set it up. I think there is a MODE command involved if 
memory serves. Nudge me on MOonday and I'll investigate.
Stu

On 4/29/2010 3:10 PM, Jeff Glass wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have some C programs that I wrote back in the DOS days that sent
> information out to a DOS printer. These programs were written for DOS 6.2
>
> Will the Windows 2000 O/S accept and carry out print commands from a DOS
> program that's running in the Win2000 DOS window? All I want it to do is print
> on a locally connected printer.
>
> I would just try it, but I don't have any Win2000 computers that are
> directly connected to a printer. I don't want to waste time with this if you folks
> know if Win2000 will honor a print job from a DOS application.
>
> Jeff Glass
>
> DEC 6180 Win NT 4.0 SP6A AOL 5.0</HTML>
>
>

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