changeset 38052:9408156a3159

(MS-DOS Printing): Mention that printer port can be redirected via Control Panel.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:37:19 +0000
parents 3382f3158d21
children 3e512ad7ce98
files man/msdog.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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