Re: Neat Waffle trick

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From: morpheus
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:38

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tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

> I wanted to print something from mail in my mail box.  Instead of w filename
> and in dos doing  a copy filename prn, i did W PRN while reading mail.
>
> Low and behold it printed. 

Yeah, it's cool.  And luckily, it seems to allow it only for priv9 users,
or possibly only for console logins...

> I'm curious if this will work with LPT1, COM2 etc. etc. :)

Works with lpt1 and com2 here (both printers)..


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From: morpheus <morpheus@entropy.mcds.com>
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Subject: Re: Neat Waffle trick
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:38:25 EST
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