[Coco] Using PC printer

[Boisy Pitre]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Robert Gault wrote:

> Bill wrote:
>> Is there a way to access the PC printer with Coco? I'm using  
>> DriveWire and a
>> Coco2. I'd like to print some documents from within a .dsk image.
>> Thanks
>
> Theoretically yes. I doubt there is any code in DW3 HDBDOS to permit  
> sending print through a PC under Basic. There is a DW3 print driver  
> for NitrOS-9 which means you should be able to print when running  
> NitrOS-9 with the DW3 printer driver.
> I tried this with a USB printer and printing did not work. I've not  
> tried it with a standard parallel connection to the printer.

Robert,

When you say you've tried it with a USB printer and it didn't work,  
what exactly happened?

> On the other hand if you have the .dsk image on a PC, why bother  
> going through the Coco? Just extract the document on the PC and  
> print it using a PC program.
>
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