Linux to LPT1:
by WayCon from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4R6RA)
Hello,
I have been working with Ubuntu Mint and feeling I'm getting somewhere. For my bookstore I have a special POS application which I wrote myself on dBase and has served me well for 30 years. My problem is printing to LPT1: on Linux. I feel I'm getting close to success because, after I have given myself permissions, I can print from terminal:
waycon@waycon-Opti960:~$ echo "hi" > /dev/lp0
and it works. I'm talking directly to the metal. No drivers. (The printer, here, is a simple Epson TM-U325 receipt printer.) The trouble is that when I get into dBase via Dosemu and try to print something, it doesn't. I don't know how welcome this question will be because it may well be, at least partially, an application question. But does anyone have experience interfacing Linux, dBase and lpt1 printers?
In any case, I thank you for your time.
I have been working with Ubuntu Mint and feeling I'm getting somewhere. For my bookstore I have a special POS application which I wrote myself on dBase and has served me well for 30 years. My problem is printing to LPT1: on Linux. I feel I'm getting close to success because, after I have given myself permissions, I can print from terminal:
waycon@waycon-Opti960:~$ echo "hi" > /dev/lp0
and it works. I'm talking directly to the metal. No drivers. (The printer, here, is a simple Epson TM-U325 receipt printer.) The trouble is that when I get into dBase via Dosemu and try to print something, it doesn't. I don't know how welcome this question will be because it may well be, at least partially, an application question. But does anyone have experience interfacing Linux, dBase and lpt1 printers?
In any case, I thank you for your time.