I get some crazy questions emailed to me, presumably because of the blog. Most I can't answer, as I have a job and a wife, but some are too interesting not to. One fellow emailed me yesterday who's got a real world legacy system problem. So, since everyone is so concerned about VB6 support going away, I give you:

Getting a Shared Network Printer to work under DOS - A CheckList

• DOS Hardware Drivers for your network card
• DOS TCP/IP stack
• Network stack for whatever protocol is sharing your printer (SAMBA, Novell, etc)
• Printer Port Redirector for DOS that will let you point LPT1(PRN) to your networked printer

Googling found these, I'm sure there are more:

• http://www.anzio.com/support/troubleshooting/dostcp.htm
• http://www.smashco.com/wattcp.asp
• http://www.gpvno.co.za/html/whatisit.htm

Seems that if people care deeply about legacy systems, they will make things work. Now I'm off to get email from my C64...