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Re: print to USB from Qbasic

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Jun 24th, 2008

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Originally Posted by paul2594

I recently updated my system to XP-2 with a pentium III. I have a number of qbasic programs I developed to use in my hobbies and lo and behold, I can't print to my usb port. The programs run okay. I should think this is a problem that has been solved many times but I haven't run acrossed the answer. Perhaps print-to-file then open and print the file with notepad or something. Any ideas?

Thanks, Paul

Try http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/dosprint.html
It works for me! Jackgrt

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Re: print to USB from Qbasic

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Jun 28th, 2008

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Originally Posted by paul2594

I recently updated my system to XP-2 with a pentium III. I have a number of qbasic programs I developed to use in my hobbies and lo and behold, I can't print to my usb port. The programs run okay. I should think this is a problem that has been solved many times but I haven't run acrossed the answer. Perhaps print-to-file then open and print the file with notepad or something. Any ideas?

Thanks, Paul

One way is to do a 'Print Screen' which copies the screen to clipboard, then paste into Paint or other graphic editor. You can print from there. For a formatted output, you'll need a line printer on a parallel port. There are converters on the market from parallel to USB, also. I'm hoping someone will respond with a way to get QBasic to drive the USB port, as I have the same problem.

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Re: print to USB from Qbasic

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Jul 10th, 2008

or, try "printfil" (shareware), even better, for me. good luck, Jack

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Read this, userport.zip worked for us to allow qbasic to work in windows xp to control the arrick robotics through the parallel port.

http://www.writelog.com/support/lpt_port_support_on_windows_nt.htm

Download userport.zip from here: http://www.embeddedtronics.com/design&ideas.html