# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 992597839 0 # Node ID 9408156a3159b75a19e30444fe078f9672040370 # Parent 3382f3158d210e1f5eaa9eaa3b327856379fef7a (MS-DOS Printing): Mention that printer port can be redirected via Control Panel. diff -r 3382f3158d21 -r 9408156a3159 man/msdog.texi --- a/man/msdog.texi Fri Jun 15 08:46:58 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/msdog.texi Fri Jun 15 09:37:19 2001 +0000 @@ -459,6 +459,11 @@ After this command, setting @code{printer-name} to @code{"LPT2"} should produce the hardcopy on the networked printer. + With some varieties of Windows network software, you can instruct +Windows to capture a specific printer port such as @code{"LPT2"} and +redirect it to a networked printer via the @w{@code{Control +Panel->Printers}} applet instead of @samp{net use}. + 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