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Article #14157Damn Ctrl-P
From: Przemek Klosowski
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 19:53
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 19:53
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Hello! I apologize if this is very easy---but how does one prevent Ctrl-P key from always trying to send something to the printer? I use C-P often under Emacs editor, and I sometimes instinctively type it in MSDOS when I want to correct a typo I did. Since some of my computers do not have a printer attached, it hangs the poor thing. I looked for a program to disable it on the usual archives, to no avail. Any ideas? I see two avenues: 1) disable something in the software 2) short some pins in the parallel connector, to fool it into believing that printer did print the stuff I can't believe that there is no simple way to prevent what is equivalent to prompt system hangup after one keystroke. przemek -- przemek klosowski (przemek@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu) Physics Department University of Notre Dame IN 46556
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cme!durer.cme.nist.gov!przemek From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Damn Ctrl-P Message-ID: <PRZEMEK.91May30155306@rrdstrad.nist.gov> Date: 30 May 91 19:53:06 GMT Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: U. Notre Dame/NIST Lines: 19