Command: printer.sys
PRINTER.SYS provides codepage management capabilities for a printer
driver. PRINTER.SYS has to be loaded in CONFIG.SYS / FDCONFIG.SYS.
When FreeDOS is already running, you can load PRINTER.SYS later
with DEVLOAD.
Syntax:
printer [devname][:]=([hardwaretype],[{n|(n1,[n2,]...)}],[m])
Options:
devname Name of the printer port device which is going to be
expanded, such as PRN or LPTx. The colon is optional.
hardwaretype The identifier of the hardware display adapter type.
It may also determine the number of subfonts to use.
There are not supported types yet.
n, n1, n2,.. Numbers for the codepage numbers of the hardware
codepages.
m Number of buffers that you want to specify to prepare
codepages (default is 1)
Comments:
This driver has not yet a binary form, because no specific printer
hardware management has been yet added (you can compile both
PRINTER.SYS or DISPLAY.SYS from the sources of DISPLAY).
Examples:
When PRINTER.SYS has some hardware support, you'll be able to do:
PRINTER PRN=(IBMPro,437,1)
You specify that you have an IBM Proprinter compatible printer, with
hardware codepage 437, and request only 1 buffer, in order to minimise
resident memory footprint.
See also:
chcp
devload
display
print
printq
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Copyright (C) Aitor SANTAMARIA MERINO, updated 2008
by W. Spiegl.
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