wine users - Aug 2015 - Writing directly to a lpt1: port and redirect to the lpr command

I'm have a remote printer installed in the cups. I shared the printer and
it prints OK using the wine notepad.
But I have a old application that prints only if have direct access to a
lpt1 named port.
We can test executing the program wine start.exe and run the command:
echo 'test' > lpt1 that returns:
File not found
I tried to create the rule
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Printing\Spooler]
"LPT1:"="|lpr"
But echo 'test' > lpt1 still returns File not found
I'm wondering if it's possible to create a LPT1: port and echoing to lpr
Does anyone know if it is possible?
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On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 00:57 -0300, HugLeo wrote:
> I'm have a remote printer installed in the cups. I shared the printer 
> and
> it prints OK using the wine notepad.
> But I have a old application that prints only if have direct access 
> to a
> lpt1 named port.
> We can test executing the program wine start.exe and run the command:
> echo 'test' > lpt1 that returns:
> File not found
> I tried to create the rule
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Printing\Spooler]
> "LPT1:"="|lpr"
> But echo 'test' > lpt1 still returns File not found
> I'm wondering if it's possible to create a LPT1: port and echoing
to
> lpr
> Does anyone know if it is possible?
>
No guarantees but you *might* be able to print directly if your PC has
a parallel port and the printer is connected to it. Then, at a minimum,
you'd need to to alias the printer (probably its /dev/lp0) as LPT1: by
adding a symlink ("ln -s /dev/lp0 LPT1:") and change its access
permissions so the user that is running Wine has read and write
permissions for the device file (/dev/lp0 or whatever your PC calls
it.).

IOW that program is expecting to use its own printer driver (or one in
a Windows library) to talk directly to a parallel interface chip that
Windows addresses as LPT1. I've done this successfully for serial ports
but haven't tried it for a printer.


Martin

I made a bug report (enhancement) :)

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39056


On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Martin Gregorie <martin at gregorie.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 00:57 -0300, HugLeo wrote:
> > I'm have a remote printer installed in the cups. I shared the
printer
> > and
> > it prints OK using the wine notepad.
> > But I have a old application that prints only if have direct access
> > to a
> > lpt1 named port.
> > We can test executing the program wine start.exe and run the command:
> > echo 'test' > lpt1 that returns:
> > File not found
> > I tried to create the rule
> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Printing\Spooler]
> > "LPT1:"="|lpr"
> > But echo 'test' > lpt1 still returns File not found
> > I'm wondering if it's possible to create a LPT1: port and
echoing to
> > lpr
> > Does anyone know if it is possible?
> >
>
> No guarantees but you *might* be able to print directly if your PC has
> a parallel port and the printer is connected to it. Then, at a minimum,
> you'd need to to alias the printer (probably its /dev/lp0) as LPT1: by
> adding a symlink ("ln -s /dev/lp0 LPT1:") and change its access
> permissions so the user that is running Wine has read and write
> permissions for the device file (/dev/lp0 or whatever your PC calls
> it.).
>
> IOW that program is expecting to use its own printer driver (or one in
> a Windows library) to talk directly to a parallel interface chip that
> Windows addresses as LPT1. I've done this successfully for serial ports
> but haven't tried it for a printer.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
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