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Re: Printing problem

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From: Joe Trott
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 19:45
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anders@ipcsun1.his.se (Anders Eklund) writes:

>I am writing a program which runs on a Novell network. The normal
>printing procedure is that i use stdprn which works just fine.
>The text is captured and written on a network printer. The problem
>is that I now want to be able to write to a local and a network 
>printer at the same time, not simultaneously of course. Is it possible
>to override this capturing effect or is there another way? I would
>be most greatful for any answer.

If you can write to a different LPT port, you can CAPTURE L=# etc... where
# is the LPT port to which you are writing (default is 1).  Thus, you could
write to _that_ CAPTUREd port to go to the network (any queue), but still
use stdprn to go to the local LPT1 device.

-JTT
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From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Printing problem
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