Dos printing and windows 10 32 bit

We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

HS

On 13/08/2015 22:30, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

What are they called and aren't there a any updates/upgrades to those
two programs? It is nearly 20 years since DOS was withdrawn from pubic
circulation.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

How are you printing in Windows 10? Do you get any error messages? What
does "no success" means here?

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

For how long? You have used a dos program for more than 20 years and do
you intend to do the same with Windows 7 and/or Windows 8.1.


I don't see any question here. Were you just posting to let us know
that you don't like Windows 10? If so then you have done very well
indeed because we got your message.

On 13/08/2015 22:50, Wolf K wrote:
On 2015-08-13 17:30, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

HS

Check the thread "Windows 10 sends data to Microsoft, despite privacy
settings"

Is that why the OP can't print in Windows 10? Please clarify. I don't
think so. the OP can't print because he hasn't got a compatible driver
for Windows 10 for his printer that can run under command prompt.

Also, DOS can't use USB ports AFAIK but I haven't used Dos at all but
USB didn't exists in those days. He must be using a very old parallel
port printer that can't interpret printer codes correctly from Win10.
Could be almost anything but the OP was simply telling us he won't use
Windows 10. That is all he wanted to do here.

On 2015-08-13 5:30 PM, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

When programs like DOSBox exist, one has to wonder why people care
whether a program runs directly in Windows or not. Set up DOSBox,
install FreeDOS (100% compatible) if it requires it and then install
your program. Why try to get it to work in a modern operating system
(which _shouldn't_ support your archaic ****) when you can just emulate
it and get better results.

Now, you're mentioning a printer except that your article is so poorly
constructed that it's hard to figure out what you mean. Try to clarify
exactly what you need from us. If there IS a Windows 10 printer driver,
one has to wonder what you're complaining about.

--
A.M

Peter Köhlmann is such an exemplary Linux advocate that his family uses
Apple products.

HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

HS

So this is an "Abandon ye all hope" kinda post ?

Usually, the purpose of posting here is to get help.

To get help, you need to describe in a little more
detail, as to what happened. Were error dialogs
present ? Did you see something in the Spool monitor
window that made you suspicious ? What format
is the output ? What kind of print is expected ?
Print to text ? PostScript ? PCL ? XPS flavored
printer driving (where the printer can actually
parse an XPS complete with ZIP container and
XML inside) ?

If you could get the DOS to "print to file", you
might be able to print in two steps instead of the
usual one step.

Paul

I am placing my reply at the top.

I use win 10 at home and got many of my family members on windows 10

I was on the insider program for about 4 months.

I like windows 10

I have a medical speciality practice.

Around 1985 I found "Professional File' an extremely easy database
program (WYSWYG). This program is my front program to sign up patients.

I had a programmer write a few formulas to make it work for me.
With win 2k I had to add 100 to some of the formulas as I was getting
negative age. eg -50 years old.

At the end of the day my administrative assistant prints out a list
of patients seen and when she goes home she submits the billing to
a cloud billing program. She loves it.

I always use parallel printers as dos requires tricks to print to USB
printers. (printer spooling). At present we have HP laserjet 2035 printers.

In my EMG lab I have simple form that I made up with Professional write.
It has simple macros to fill out the data obtained from patient testing.
We then print it.

Both Professional File and Professional write have no issues with printing.

With Professional file I can print one or 2 pages and have to reboot to
print again.

With professional write I cannot print at all.

I therefore need win 7 for my bread and butter work until I retire is
about 3 years time.

At my desk I have windows 8.1 computer. I access hospital patients
records when needed with "my portal". Windows 8 works. With windows 10
I get an error

=====================================
The session reference number: 60372952

Access was denied by the access policy. This may be due to a failure to
meet access policy requirements.

If you are an administrator, please go to Access Policy Reports : All
Sessions page and look up the session reference number displayed above.
======================================

I have informed the hospital IT department.

Until I can solve this problem I will continue to use windows 8.1.

Once this issue is solved I will switch over to windows 10

We do have an upgraded windows 10 computer used for dealing with my
dictation, typing printing etc and scanning documents plus other chores.

We are not networked. I am my own IT guy. All my computes are assembled
by my computer guy and all the operating systems are OEM

I use dos some of my work as I I have this philosophy "If a bicycle gets
you from A to B why use a jet?"

HS




On 2015-08-13 7:01 PM, A.M wrote:
On 2015-08-13 5:30 PM, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.




We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

When programs like DOSBox exist, one has to wonder why people care
whether a program runs directly in Windows or not. Set up DOSBox,
install FreeDOS (100% compatible) if it requires it and then install
your program. Why try to get it to work in a modern operating system
(which _shouldn't_ support your archaic ****) when you can just emulate
it and get better results.

Now, you're mentioning a printer except that your article is so poorly
constructed that it's hard to figure out what you mean. Try to clarify
exactly what you need from us. If there IS a Windows 10 printer driver,
one has to wonder what you're complaining about.

On 2015-08-13 7:50 PM, HS wrote:
I am placing my reply at the top.

I use win 10 at home and got many of my family members on windows 10

I was on the insider program for about 4 months.

I like windows 10

I have a medical speciality practice.

Around 1985 I found "Professional File' an extremely easy database
program (WYSWYG). This program is my front program to sign up patients.

I had a programmer write a few formulas to make it work for me.
With win 2k I had to add 100 to some of the formulas as I was getting
negative age. eg -50 years old.

At the end of the day my administrative assistant prints out a list
of patients seen and when she goes home she submits the billing to
a cloud billing program. She loves it.

I always use parallel printers as dos requires tricks to print to USB
printers. (printer spooling). At present we have HP laserjet 2035 printers.

In my EMG lab I have simple form that I made up with Professional write.
It has simple macros to fill out the data obtained from patient testing.
We then print it.

Both Professional File and Professional write have no issues with printing.

With Professional file I can print one or 2 pages and have to reboot to
print again.

With professional write I cannot print at all.

I therefore need win 7 for my bread and butter work until I retire is
about 3 years time.

At my desk I have windows 8.1 computer. I access hospital patients
records when needed with "my portal". Windows 8 works. With windows 10
I get an error

=====================================
The session reference number: 60372952

Access was denied by the access policy. This may be due to a failure to
meet access policy requirements.

If you are an administrator, please go to Access Policy Reports : All
Sessions page and look up the session reference number displayed above.
======================================

I have informed the hospital IT department.

Until I can solve this problem I will continue to use windows 8.1.

Once this issue is solved I will switch over to windows 10

We do have an upgraded windows 10 computer used for dealing with my
dictation, typing printing etc and scanning documents plus other chores.

We are not networked. I am my own IT guy. All my computes are assembled
by my computer guy and all the operating systems are OEM

I use dos some of my work as I I have this philosophy "If a bicycle gets
you from A to B why use a jet?"

If you're out the door in three years then let's be honest and state
that sticking to Windows 7 makes the most sense. As far as I know,
Microsoft is planning on supporting Windows 7 until 2021 so there is no
reason to upgrade at all. Let people who want the latest and greatest
deal with Windows 10, keep 7 for all of your essential work.


--
A.M

On 2015-08-15 12:59 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 14/08/2015 00:01, A.M wrote:
On 2015-08-13 5:30 PM, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

When programs like DOSBox exist, one has to wonder why people care
whether a program runs directly in Windows or not. Set up DOSBox,
install FreeDOS (100% compatible) if it requires it and then install
your program. Why try to get it to work in a modern operating system
(which _shouldn't_ support your archaic ****) when you can just emulate
it and get better results.

Now, you're mentioning a printer except that your article is so poorly
constructed that it's hard to figure out what you mean. Try to clarify
exactly what you need from us. If there IS a Windows 10 printer driver,
one has to wonder what you're complaining about.


DOSBox doesn't need you to install anything else (such as FreeDOS).
It emulates DOS itself, and links directly in to your Windows file
system not a virtual disk.
In many ways it's an excellent way to run DOS programs but unfortunately
it doesn't seem to include anything to help you print from a DOS
program. You might be able to do it if your program can print to a
virtual COM port and your printer can connect to a real COM port.


I have had some feedback from Microsoft forum and it is unlikely that
I will be able to print from such and old dos program.

The program prints fine with win 8.1 32 bit. I may purchase two of
these and the win 8.1 cycle will end in 2023.

I certainly will be retired by that time.

How safe is it to purchase windows key on line from a site like this?

Is it legitimate?

http://www.vanskeys.com/windows-8-standard-p-1130.html

I have the media.

HS

On 15/08/2015 18:57, HS wrote:
On 2015-08-15 12:59 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 14/08/2015 00:01, A.M wrote:
On 2015-08-13 5:30 PM, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

When programs like DOSBox exist, one has to wonder why people care
whether a program runs directly in Windows or not. Set up DOSBox,
install FreeDOS (100% compatible) if it requires it and then install
your program. Why try to get it to work in a modern operating system
(which _shouldn't_ support your archaic ****) when you can just emulate
it and get better results.

Now, you're mentioning a printer except that your article is so poorly
constructed that it's hard to figure out what you mean. Try to clarify
exactly what you need from us. If there IS a Windows 10 printer driver,
one has to wonder what you're complaining about.


DOSBox doesn't need you to install anything else (such as FreeDOS).
It emulates DOS itself, and links directly in to your Windows file
system not a virtual disk.
In many ways it's an excellent way to run DOS programs but unfortunately
it doesn't seem to include anything to help you print from a DOS
program. You might be able to do it if your program can print to a
virtual COM port and your printer can connect to a real COM port.


I have had some feedback from Microsoft forum and it is unlikely that
I will be able to print from such and old dos program.

The program prints fine with win 8.1 32 bit. I may purchase two of
these and the win 8.1 cycle will end in 2023.

I certainly will be retired by that time.

How safe is it to purchase windows key on line from a site like this?

Is it legitimate?

http://www.vanskeys.com/windows-8-standard-p-1130.html

I have the media.

HS



Well I wouldn't myself.
For one thing Web Of Trust says that site is not trustworthy.

--

Brian Gregory (in the UK).
To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address.

On 2015-08-15 2:53 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 15/08/2015 18:57, HS wrote:
On 2015-08-15 12:59 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 14/08/2015 00:01, A.M wrote:
On 2015-08-13 5:30 PM, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

When programs like DOSBox exist, one has to wonder why people care
whether a program runs directly in Windows or not. Set up DOSBox,
install FreeDOS (100% compatible) if it requires it and then install
your program. Why try to get it to work in a modern operating system
(which _shouldn't_ support your archaic ****) when you can just emulate
it and get better results.

Now, you're mentioning a printer except that your article is so poorly
constructed that it's hard to figure out what you mean. Try to clarify
exactly what you need from us. If there IS a Windows 10 printer driver,
one has to wonder what you're complaining about.


DOSBox doesn't need you to install anything else (such as FreeDOS).
It emulates DOS itself, and links directly in to your Windows file
system not a virtual disk.
In many ways it's an excellent way to run DOS programs but unfortunately
it doesn't seem to include anything to help you print from a DOS
program. You might be able to do it if your program can print to a
virtual COM port and your printer can connect to a real COM port.


I have had some feedback from Microsoft forum and it is unlikely that
I will be able to print from such and old dos program.

The program prints fine with win 8.1 32 bit. I may purchase two of

How safe is it to purchase windows key on line from a site like this?

Is it legitimate?

http://www.vanskeys.com/windows-8-standard-p-1130.html

I have the media.

HS



Well I wouldn't myself.
For one thing Web Of Trust says that site is not trustworthy.


Thanks for the information.

HS

On 2015-08-15 12:59 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 14/08/2015 00:01, A.M wrote:
On 2015-08-13 5:30 PM, HS wrote:
We use 2 old dos programs in our office.

We have no problem in printing with win 8.1 32 bit.

We have no success with windows 10 32 bit. This is
deal breaker for us. The hp printer driver is for win 10

We will stay with windows 7 and 8.1

When programs like DOSBox exist, one has to wonder why people care
whether a program runs directly in Windows or not. Set up DOSBox,
install FreeDOS (100% compatible) if it requires it and then install
your program. Why try to get it to work in a modern operating system
(which _shouldn't_ support your archaic ****) when you can just emulate
it and get better results.

Now, you're mentioning a printer except that your article is so poorly
constructed that it's hard to figure out what you mean. Try to clarify
exactly what you need from us. If there IS a Windows 10 printer driver,
one has to wonder what you're complaining about.


DOSBox doesn't need you to install anything else (such as FreeDOS).
It emulates DOS itself, and links directly in to your Windows file
system not a virtual disk.
In many ways it's an excellent way to run DOS programs but unfortunately
it doesn't seem to include anything to help you print from a DOS
program. You might be able to do it if your program can print to a
virtual COM port and your printer can connect to a real COM port.

Thanks for that. I've never used DOSBox myself (since I have no DOS
software that I need to hold on to) but I am aware of its existence. I
am sure that your additional information will help the user in question
though.


--
A.M

Hillary for Prison 2016!!