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- PRINT
- Prints text (ascii) files in the background mode.
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- PRINT will place filenames in the queue for background printing
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- COMMAND TYPE: External VERSION: 2.0 and up
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- USE: PRINT [/D: device] [/B:bufsize] [/U:busy] [/M:maxtick]
- [/S:timeslice] [/Q:qsize][/C][/T][/P] [[d:][path][filename]...]
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- FIRST USE ONLY:
- /D:device specifies the device to PRINT to. Default is PRN; other
- valid devices are LPTx (x=1,2,3) and COMx (x=1-4)
- /B:bufize specifies the size of the buffer (in bytes). Default is 512,
- range is 512-1634
- /U:busy specifies the number of clock ticks that PRINT will wait
- while the print device is busy or unavailable. Default is 1
- /M:maxtick specifies the number of ticks that PRINT can have to print
- to the print device. Values from 1 to 255 will be accepted.
- Default is 2
- /S:timeslice specifies the interval of time used by the MSDOS scheduler
- for the PRINT command. Values from 1 to 255 will be
- accepted. Default is 8.
- /Q:qsize specifies the number of PRINT files that may be in the queue.
- Values from 4 to 32 are acceptable. Default is 10
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- SUBSEQUENT USE
- /C selects the cancel mode. Removes preceding filename and all
- following filenames from the queue.
- /T terminates the entire PRINT procedure. All files currently
- being PRINTed will be cancelled.
- /P sets the print mode. The preceding filename and any files
- following /P will be added to the PRINT queue.
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- d: path filename... is a list of files to PRINT. wildcards are accepted.
- The maximum length of a path and filename is 64 characters,
- hence it may be neccessary to change directories before
- issuing the command.
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- EXAMPLE: PRINT *.DOC /C
- will cancel all files with an extension of DOC from the print queue.
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- EXAMPLE: PRINT TEST.DOC /C T.DOC /P
- cancels TEST.DOC and adds T.DOC to the print queue.
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