Printing directly to LPT port

Hi everyone;

I have 2 dot matrix printers installed on a win98 machine.

I can successfully print from other machines to the printers on the win98 machine by issuing:

set printer to \\win98machine\invoices
or
set printer to \\win98machine\reports

The problem is that I can't find a way to print to these printers from the win98 machine itself.

The above set printer command won't work.

Neither would
set printer to LPT1:
or
set printer to LPT2:

They are simply disregarded and the printer is still the default windows driver.

Any ideas would be greatly apreciated.

As always - thanks.

Visual FoxPro1

set printer to name (getprinter())

Cetin;

Set printer to name will not print direcly to the port. It would go through the windows printer driver.

Aleniko.

It's not that easy as Windows insists in going through the printer spooler.

Maybe this will be of help:

http://www.universalthread.com/wconnect/wc.dll 2,54,33,9957

So what You can capture LPT1:, no

Yes, but I would still print to the destination driver. Not to the port.