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Article #1401Re: Printing problem
From: Joe Trott
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 19:45
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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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) Subject: Re: Printing problem Message-ID: <1992Sep9.194510.27018@dcatlas.dot.gov> Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation References: <ANDERS.92Sep8134840@ipcsun1.his.se> Distribution: comp.os.msdos.programmer Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:45:10 GMT Lines: 17