Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.??

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From: hank janssen
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:31

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For all you MSDOS wizards out there. Maybe a stupid question.
I have an application that prints out data from a very old DB system.
I need to get the output of a list from the database in a flat file.
(THe database is very old, and i have no DB access routines)

I can print pre-made lists. But they always go to the printer.
Is there aneasy way for me to intercept the stuff going to the printer
and route it to go to a file.

The program directly prints to the printer port.

Any ideas.????

All help is very much apreciated.!

Hank Janssen.

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Subject: Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.??
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