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DosBox Cobal program printing issue
I am trying to get full functionality out of an old COBAL program that works with the use of dosbox SVN-Daum. I get an error when I try to print (the program prints to LPT1) Any ideas/help on how to troubleshoot such a problem would be greatly appreciated. I am currently using a program called DOS Printer V12.02 to try and capture the output, but would rather get the output to go to a file if possible. I have run dosbox from an administrative command prompt and checked the box on dosbox to run with administrative privileges as well.
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by changing the following settings in the config file.
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Yes I did mean COBOL sorry about the typo.
I am using port capture as you mentioned on the live environment and a third party program called dos capture for non live testing. The printing did work with the above settings and the port capture, but I am now having a much different problem in that I see no way without some kind of program like dos capture of converting the printed data to "compressed" print format, and the header / content are being printed on separate pages. Thank you for your help on the file printing arana that may be what I end up using if it is capable of combining the two files somehow.