WINEPS insists on using LPT1:

[Lee Allen]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:26:31 GMT, g.patel at wanadoo.fr wrote:

>I have dug an old post where I was trying to address the problem
>of printing using a text driver; there are all places where I had
>to set something to get it to load; maybe some of these places
>is missing for you ? OTOH I have never used the Ps driver so
>beware this could be irrelevant (or even already obsolete :-/)

Wow: The TTY driver was my first choice; I worked on it for days,
dredged through the archives, then finally gave up on it and focussed
on the 'supported' WINEPS.  I would really like to output simple,
straight text.

Did you get TTY to work? If so...
Are you using the wine [builtin] tty drivers, or windows native
drivers?  If the latter, are we talking 16-bit Win 3.1 (which I don't
have access to) or 32-bit?  Do you have any DLL settings (eg commdlg)
other than "builtin, native" ?

My reason for wanting to email was there was such a 'lag' between my
posting something, and it appearing on the newsgroup, that it was
taking us 2 days to conduct our 'conversation', and the content seemed
to not be terribly relevant to the world at large. 
But this content seems more relevant.

-Lee Allen

>
>
>my .winerc
>
>[parallelports]
>Lpt1=|lpr
> 
>[spooler]
>LPT1:=|lpr 
>
>my win.ini
>
>[devices]
>Wine PostScript Driver=WINEPS,LPT1:
>Driver Tty=TTY,LPT1:
>Winprint=Tty,LPT1:
> 
>[windows]
>device=Driver tty,TTY,LPT1:      
>
>my registry (system.reg)
>[MACHINE\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Printers\\Driver
>tty] 960414217
>"Attributes"="dword:00000000"
>"Default Devmode"=hex(55555555):
>"Name"="Driver tty"
>"Port"="LPT1:"
>"Print Processor"="WinPrint"
>"Printer Driver"="tty"
>"Priority"="dword:00000000"
>"Start Time"="dword:00000000"
>"Status"="dword:00000000"
>"Until Time"="dword:00000000"  
>
>Btw if you *really* need to mail me the address I display here
>is now entirely wrong; my provider is currently 'asi' (in the fr
>domain) and my address is 'gerard.patel' (it's shown on the 
>wine-devel list or in the Wine ChangeLog anyway)
>
>Gerard