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Re: print to USB from Qbasic

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Originally Posted by paul2594 (Post 115814)

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

Re: print to USB from Qbasic

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Originally Posted by paul2594 (Post 115814)

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.

Re: print to USB from Qbasic

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

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