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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: PRN in VDM has a BUG !!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.224156.4529@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <BzEzrK.6np@tct.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:41:56 GMT
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- In article <BzEzrK.6np@tct.com> paul@tct.com (Paul Levin) writes:
- >I am (still) running the GA release of 2.0. The only printer driver
- >installed (or wanted, for that matter) is IBMNULL. It is set in raw mode.
- >Try the following commands in a VDM
- > echo "hello" > prn:
- > -- this works, the "hello" is sent to the printer queue
- > copy file prn:
- > -- this does not work. The copy command completes
- > with no complaints, but nothing goes to the printer
- > queue. Replace prn: with lpt1: and everything
- > works fine.
- >Comments, fixes, etc. are welcome (especially from IBM).
-
- The same thing happens in DOS, I think, when you try to use COPY to
- any non-disk device. Try:
-
- COPY /B file PRN:
-
- Does that do anything?
-
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