Capture Facility For LT 6 Under Windows 95

If you have been able to get drive mappings working but not printing under
W95, this program may help. If you can successfully print in a DOS Window
by copying to a redirected printer port, you may be in luck.  This utility
captures printer output sent to a file and resends it to a printer port under
DOS.  All you have to do is set up W95 to print to a file.

You have two choices in this regard:

1. You can print to FILE: and be prompted for an output file name every time
2. You can create a new port with "Add Port..." on the printer settings menu.
   Do not choose a Network printer, rather ask for a local port, and then give
   a path name to a spool file.  THE NAME MUST END IN .PRN  With this method,
   W95 won't prompt you for a file name every time.

Run the Capture program and select the directory where you have directed the
spool file.  You must also tell Capture where to send the output ( LPT1 - 3 )
Click on start and try printing something.

The Capture program checks the directory every 2000 miliseconds ( 2 seconds )
by default. You can change this in the refresh rate box.  By making the refresh
rate 2 seconds, I don't think this will load down your system too heavily.

When installing the program, make sure the "Printit.bat" file is in your
PATH.  You will need to copy the VBRUN300.DLL file to your Windows/System
directory if you don't already have one.

To run the program automatically, place it in your Startup folder.  If you
give it a command line argument representing your spool directory, it will
start automatically.


If it helps, great.  Remember, this was written to handle some of our own
problems here.  It may be flaky, half an hour of testing isn't exhaustive.
In our case, it is working fine.  If you have comments or questions, E-Mail me
at 71045,3720@compuserve.com and I'll try to help you out.

Good Luck