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Kiel / Germany,
10.01.2023, 21:57
 

How to use OKI Microline 3390 under MS Works / FreeDOS? (Miscellaneous)

I have an old Toshiba Satellite S2410 now exclusively running with FreeDOS. Luckily it has a serial port for a connection with my OKI Microline dot matrix printer. So far I don't have any luck to print pages from MS Works 1.05 on that computer. Does anyone know which driver I can/should use to get it working?

DosWorld

10.01.2023, 23:23
(edited by DosWorld, 11.01.2023, 05:32)

@ erik

How to use OKI Microline 3390 under MS Works / FreeDOS?

> I have an old Toshiba Satellite S2410 now exclusively running with FreeDOS.
> Luckily it has a serial port for a connection with my OKI Microline dot

Serial or parallel? (imho, paralell)
Check BIOS (is ports enabled?).

If i am not wrong, i remember this printer - he must work from DOS without drivers.
Drivers need for MS-Works for more pretty printing.

Try execute
copy sometext.txt prn:
(File sometext.txt should contains few words like "Hello world!")

(i dont remember all right names)
copy sometext.txt lpt:
copy sometext.txt lpt1:
copy sometext.txt lpt2:
copy sometext.txt lpt3:
copy sometext.txt lpt4:


This take anwser "is printer connected in right way?" (and which port).
And then - try to setup MS-Works.

If printer don't print "Hello world", it will mean problem in BIOS, cable or printer.

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Kiel / Germany,
11.01.2023, 07:33

@ DosWorld

How to use OKI Microline 3390 under MS Works / FreeDOS?

Thanks a lot, DosWorld! :-). It really didn't cross my mind to check the BIOS if the port was enabled or not ... -.-

Now everything works smoothly :-)

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