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Article #14901Re: printing > 10 files
From: Peter Ashwood-Smith
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1986 19:21
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1986 19:21
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> [the line eater eater was here]
> I have a friend who wants to collect lots of files in a telecommunications
> session, then print them later on (like overnight). The trouble is that
> MS-DOS, wretched excuse for an OS that it is, only allows 10 files to be in
> the print queue at a time. And since the print command just queues things up,
Why not just cat all of the files together with 'copy' and then
print the entire mess? If you need a better connection between files
ie an extra FF or something then write your own 'cat'.
Peter Ashwood-Smith.
University of Toronto.
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