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In article <1992Nov4.204803.26297@cbnews.cb.att.com>, merchant@cbnews.cb.att.com (shahrukh.s.merchant) writes:

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> If I type a Ctrl-P followed by Enter at the MS-DOS prompt, I get a message
>       Write Fault Error on Device PRN
>       Abort, Retry?
> Then, no matter what I type (a or r or ^C or Break or anything else),
> it keeps coming back with the same message, and I have to reboot to get
> out of it!
> 
> Apparently, this is some kind of Print Screen or Print Input "Hotkey,"
> and it doesn't like the fact that I don't have a printer installed.
> However, I could not find this "feature" documented anywhere in the MS-DOS
> manual.  Besides, why would it not respond to Abort?

Ctrl-P is a "Printer echo" key.  It works identically with Ctrl-PrintScreen,
in that you press it once to toggle printer output, and press it once more
to toggle it off.

The magic key you should press in your kind of situation is
Ctrl-P.  Pressing A or F (for fail) doesn't work because dos is
still in "printer echo" mode, and will come back with another error
message when it can't find a printer.

BTW, Ctrl-PrintScreen IS documented in the MS-DOS manual.  I would have
hoped ^P would be mentioned somewhere around there, too, but that's the
story.  ^P is useful sometimes, but a real pain when you don't have a 
printer and accidentally press it.
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