Tim On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: lp would print a file to the named printer. How do I print or redirect the console output to the printer as is the case in "ls -lha > prn" And moreover a legacy program is printing to a device lpt1, had the port existed & been connected/redirected to some printer....it would have printed. Problem here is that there is no connection between the print output of the software and the lpd/lpr/cups/smb device. The software is NOT modified to recognize the lpr/cups device and therefore is printing to a lpt1 port, as all DOS legacy programs do. What I need to do is somehow capture the output to the lpt1 device & redirect it to the printer setup on linux. Is it possible to create a directory named lpt1 in /dev and make it behave like a device (whatever behaving like a device is), so that the program output written to it can be redirected to the the linux printer? With best regards. Sanjay.

Tim On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: keyed in the widows samba printer uri, keyed in authentication details & clicked verify....the printer verified as accessible. The way to do what you want is to use the system-config-printer Upon selection of Printer Driver as Epson 24 pin Generic AND upon selection of Manufaturer as Generic & Raw Queue as model, the printer gets installed and does print a test page. It is getting Enabled now...Thanks! But it still does not print from CLI applications printing to the printer port (In my case, from ls -lha >prn or Harbour compiled legacy dbase applications). The output of ls -lha > prn does not land in the print queue, even if this printer is the default printer, nor does the output of the legacy DOS based programs recompiled on Linux (Harbour project...in my case for recompiling old dbase programs). Hope you can help me troubleshoot further. With best regards & thanks. Sanjay.