[Wine] Dos to USB

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 11 15:43:05 CST 2008


English_Mohican <wineforum-user at winehq.org> at: Dec 11, 2008 2:31 PM (MST) wrote about: [Wine]  Re: Dos to USB
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>Clarification please:
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>1. Stating that Wine will not talk to a non-Cups printer presumably means that it will talk to a Cups printer. So if Linux can print to a USB printer that is a CUPS printer, presumably so can Wine. Yes?
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Correct.  Wine does not care where the printer is located.  If you can print to it using CUPS, then Wine should be able to do so likewise.

>2. If this Dos programme can be persuaded to run under Wine (I accept that may be asking too much - Wine primarily emulates Windows rather than DOS) does it matter whether the printer is serial/usb/networked/whatever, surely Wine simply redirects it to "the" printer and Linux looks after the rest.
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Correct.  Wine will direct all output to CUPS.  However, you must go into CUPS and configure the printer and I recommend that it be the primary or default printer.  Your DOS program may not be able to switch printers.  Windows programs, depending on when they were made, should.

James McKenzie





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