[Tutor] capture :LPT

[Poor Yorick]

Typo alert:  "from a file" should read "to a file".

Poor Yorick wrote:

> You may not be able to use Python to print directly to your parallel 
> port, but you could use Python to print from a file, and then use the 
> os.system command to tell DOS to print the file you created.
>
> Poor Yorick
> gp@pooryorick.com
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> janos.juhasz@VELUX.com wrote:
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>> Dear Gurus,
>>
>> I have an ERP like program, that can't use the WINDOWS printing 
>> correctly,
>> but printing nicely to DOS printers.
>> My idea was to printing to the - for example - :LPT2 port, where 
>> wouldn't
>> be any printer device just a a program, that could capture all the data
>> sent to the printer.
>> It would be a python program.
>> It would filter and reshape the printing and would send it to a real 
>> print
>> device on any other port.
>>
>> I have tried it with  p = open("LPT1:", "rb") and an infinite loop, 
>> but it
>> just hung up. :(
>>
>>>>> p = open("LPT1:", "rb")
>>>>> while 1:
>>>>>
>> ...   print p.read(1)
>>
>> Is it possible under MS?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -----------------------
>> Juhász János
>> IT department
>> E-Mail: janos.juhasz@VELUX.com
>>
>>
>>
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