# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 985529150 0
# Node ID 425c1d8cbbda3a620f27319cd9bb90eec6817df9
# Parent  cd1988377f17d80cf710d0306e54f826e91e55be
(MS-DOS Printing): Document the use of "net use" with networked printers.

diff -r cd1988377f17 -r 425c1d8cbbda man/msdog.texi
--- a/man/msdog.texi	Sun Mar 25 14:05:00 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/msdog.texi	Sun Mar 25 14:05:50 2001 +0000
@@ -443,6 +443,22 @@
 @samp{Network Neighborhood} icon on your desktop, and look for machines
 which share their printers via the network.
 
+@cindex @samp{net use}, and printing on MS-Windows
+@cindex networked printers (MS-Windows)
+  If the printer doesn't appear in the output of @samp{net view}, or
+if setting @code{printer-name} to the UNC share name doesn't produce a
+hardcopy on that printer, you can use the @samp{net use} command to
+connect a local print port such as @code{"LPT2"} to the networked
+printer.  For example, typing @kbd{net use LPT2:
+\\joes_pc\hp4si}@footnote{
+Note that the @samp{net use} command requires the UNC share name to be
+typed with the Windows-style backslashes, while the value of
+@code{printer-name} can be set with either forward- or backslashes.}
+causes Windows to @dfn{capture} the LPT2 port and redirect the printed
+material to the printer connected to the machine @code{joes_pc}.
+After this command, setting @code{printer-name} to @code{"LPT2"}
+should send the printed material to the networked printer.
+
   Some printers expect DOS codepage encoding of non-ASCII text, even
 though they are connected to a Windows machine which uses a different
 encoding for the same locale.  For example, in the Latin-1 locale, DOS