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>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.

If you're running DOS version 3.0 or later, the initial PRINT command,
i.e. the one which specifies the output device and causes a portion of
print to become resident, accepts an argument to specify the maximu number
of files in the queue.  The default is 10, max is 32 (probably still
not as much as you would like though!)  the command looks like this:

	print/q:32/D:PRN filename...

When we're looking to do more than 32 files we use the version of PR
we wrote to send output directly to the printer, i.e.:

	PR *.C *.H > PRN

That also has the advantage of making the output look a little nicer.

Joe Boykin
Custom Software Systems