Dos Printing

[Robert_Nel]

Hi ,
Is it possible to use other dosprinting programs with DHPOS, if yes which file would the programs have to default to.
Thanks
Robert Nel

[Andrew]

DHPOS outputs the file WLSDFKJN.DRY which contains the printjob. APRINT picks this up and prints it, then deletes the file.

However the file also contains some specific characters which most generic printing programs would not recognise, as they're designed to pass information to APRINT about the job - and not for printing.

[daleadmin]

Andrew,

Actually not. WLSDFKJN.DRY contains only the print stream that would normally go to the printer. There are no codes in it that are used by APRINT2.EXE although there are codes that are used by the printer.

So any process that would dump the WLSDFKJN.DRY file to the printer will print the receipt just fine. For example from the DOS prompt the command TYPE WLSDFKJN.DRY > PRN will print a receipt. However you still have the problem of waiting for the WLSDFKJN.DRY file to be closed by POS.EXE and you still have to delete WLSDFKJN.DRY after the contents have been sent to the printer.

[Andrew]

Ah ok, I thought there were some codes for APRINT in the file - but obviously not.

[ChrisKraus]

you still have to delete WLSDFKJN.DRY after the contents have been sent to the printer.

I have noticed that it doesn't. I also notice that POS.EXE also outputs printjobs with the filenames NULL, next printjob would be NULL1, next would be NULL2, etc. After I close POS, I always have to delete WLSDFKJN.DRY, NULL and NULL2.