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Re: Need help with MS-DOS 3.1 and COM1 device

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From: gervers
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1987 21:30
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I had same problem using MSC v3, I used fopen and did fprint, etc.  It turns
out fopen("COM1:","w") returned NULL, so I abandoned this approach.  

Finally, I simply used INT 14Hto send char by char.  The Laserjet is running
fine now, but memory is definitely a problem.

gervers@utcs
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From: gervers@utcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help with MS-DOS 3.1 and COM1 device
Message-ID: <1987Feb6.163015.22731@utcs.uucp>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 16:30:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 16:30:15 1987
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