I don't pretend to make judgements on what is "sane" or not sane. I'm merely pointing out that if the BIOS interrupts are not used then the task is not feasible. Your point about the viability of NET USE printer commands is taken, and probably confirms that this is a more than feasible project.
I suggested the shelling technique for somebody who wants to experiment with hooking the BIOS interrupts but is not ready to tackle the TSR portion. "Too big" depends on the program being used; there are many programs that will still load and run even with another 64K missing from RAM. Let's leave that question to the person who decides to tackle the project, eh? My Brother laser printer (HL 5370DW) which emulates Epson FX codes, PCL and PostScript just printed a PostScript copy of my 2002 family christmas letter from DOSBox using the following command: nc -target 192.168.2.20 9100 -bin < \xmas.ps Lots of fonts and formatting, an embedded image or two, etc. in a 3MB file. You are limited to what the printer understands, but I think I've demonstrated that you can safely send ASCII, PCL, PostScript, or whatever your printer supports. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
