print slave must die!

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From: Joe Smith
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 1990 01:02

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We have a PC which isn't connected to any printer (either parallel or
serial).  Of course, every time some unsuspecting user accidently hits
^P, the poor PC is hung as DOS tries in vain to slave the printer, and
the poor confused user comes running to me for help.

Does anyone know how to kill (with extreme prejudice) this 'feature'?
I generally shy away from patching binaries, but I'm willing to make
an exception here if necessary.

Do the PD printer->file TSRs/drivers handle this?  If so can you
recommend one?  This might actually be the most desirable solution
since we do all the printing remotely by tcp/ip so we frequently
need to capture printer output.

Does anyone know why this mis-feature/vestigial tail still exists?

<Joe

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 Joe Smith
 University of Pennsylvania                    jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu
 Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics          (215) 898-8348
 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059

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