Old DOS COBOL with lines, boxes... 2

[Crox]

Hi,

I have some old COBOL applications in DOS. One of them is making a print with a lot of lines, using DOS characters. Because of the old printer which supported this, is almost gone, I want an other solution, for example making a look-alike in windows or html. I was looking for a TTP-font that is true compatible with the DOS character set. I didn't find a good one that is also working with MS-WORD. The lines are converted into other not-so-good-looking characters.

Does anyone know a good font or a conversion utility or.... Any suggestion is most welcome!

 

[PHV]

Perhaps an OEM charset font ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Crox]

Those are not true type. Word does not support it, you can not tell Word to use that font.... An OEM charset font works for the dos-box itself.

 

[Tromba]

Crox,

You can try to use this utility that allow you to print old dos chars report to an usb printer, capturing its output and obtaining a preview..Its name is: Prinfil

Link:

http://www.guolo.com

Hope in this help
Gianni

 

[webrabbit]

If the printer is HP or compatable, just send an esc (10H sequence (no space between the esc character and the right parenthesis).

 

[Crox]

Thanks for the ideas. There was also software from

http://www.datamystic.com/textpipe/charactersetconverter.html?from=google&keyword=characterset1

But.. looking on the internet, it seems that html with CHARSET=IBM852 looks promising. I am going to try that first.