But do they have DOS drivers? Honest, I don't know much about this aspect,
and my laser printers are at the other house.

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"Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in message
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I don't know about the OP's laser printer, but all of my printers here
have the option "Print to file" which does save it as a .prn file.

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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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The man needs to print to file (a PRN file, I think, not text file) from
a DOS app, something that he can then send to the printer from Windows.
Generic Text to File won't help. Unfortunately, Jerry knows more about it
than I or most others here do.

Hey, Jerry... I have a couple of old dot matrix printers... or maybe my
Dad has them now. Might be the simplest solution to find a used one, not
that it's that simple, g. You still have an LPT port?

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"RobertVA" wrote in message
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Jerry Bank wrote:
In article ,
says...
You requirement is not quite clear. Does the file you are creating
have to be a print file for a particular type of printer? This would
a file that you then transfer to another machine that has that type of
printer attached, and copy to that printer in order to print it.

Or are you trying to use a print procedure to create a certain
document type, such as plain text or postscript or PDF?

Let me explain precisely what I am trying to do. I have an ancient dos
program that I use to do accounting for a very small business. I would
like to continue using it. However, while it was able to print its
reports to my old dot-matrix printer, it really can't handle my current
laser printer.

The program itself only prints to lpt1. Previously I used the simple
program prn2dos, which sent the printing to a file, which I then edited
and printed out in Windows. Since upgrading my computer it no longer
works.

I have been trying to find a way to do this task. I did find a program
called dos2usb, but it only works erratically.

I would very much appreciate any suggestions as to how I can solve this
problem.

Thanks.
Have your tried installing the Generic Text to file "printer"

You would only need to click a file name and press the "Enter" key when
the file name dialog appears.