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Re: Selection (?) of print device for SNews

#360
From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:00
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk@dsl.co.uk) wrote:
> In article <34b969a1.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>
>            malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" writes:
> 
> > Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk@dsl.co.uk) wrote:
> > > [Note cross-post and follow-ups]
> > 
> > ????
> 
> Can you not read headers with TIN?

Yes, I was questioning the odd choice of followup, which as has
already been commented will restrict the chance of getting a good
answer since few people on the pc group will take developers...

> > I used to have a small DOS utility that swapped lpt1 and lpt2 that
> > would do the trick. It is probably still on the ftp site. Unless
> > someone beats me I will look up the name next time I run DOS. It
> > was something like 'lptswap'.
> 
> Now that DOES sound handy: I await (with bated breath) your next posting.

It is called lptswap.com but I can't see it on any ftp site.
Probably too trivial.

  mov ax,0040
  mov ds,ax
  mov ax,[0008]
  mov bx,[000a]
  mov [0008],bx
  mov [000a],ax
  ret

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Malcolm S. Muir                                Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                     322 Regents Park Road
England                                        London N3 2QQ
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From: malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir)
Subject: Re: Selection (?) of print device for SNews
Date: 1998/01/12
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