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Re: Writing my own print spooler

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From: Hi Ho Silver
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 1991 17:19
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In article <1990Dec31.090454.13869@ecst.csuchico.edu> madams@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael E. Adams) writes:
$  Good posting!  I liked what you had to say, but my DOS reference
$guide seems to think that int 0Fh should be AVOIDED!
[...int 0Fh may not come from the printer port...]

   Hmm, that sheds new light on the situation :-)  Well then, I suppose one
could still use an int 0Fh routine; you'd just have to make sure you checked
the printer port's status every time before trying to send a character (which
would be a Good Thing to do anyway).  And perhaps a clock tick hook would
also be useful in case an int 0Fh failed to get through.
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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing my own print spooler
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.171918.2399@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 1 Jan 91 17:19:18 GMT
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