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- Path: sparky!uunet!drivax!frotz
- From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz)
- Subject: Re: using DR DOS 6 Script utility
- Message-ID: <M9YPBLY@dri.com>
- Sender: frotz@novell.com
- Reply-To: frotz@novell.com
- Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
- References: <1992Aug17.150555.391@cine88.cineca.it>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 20:55:19 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- Marco Simionato <simion@iveuncc.unive.it> writes:
-
- ]I have DR DOS 6 on my 386sx machine, which is connected to a PostScript
- ]Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR. The Script utility allows me to print
- ]text files from the Dos command line. This utility can be installed as
- ]TSR, so that it will intercept and elaborate all jobs directed to the
- ]printer. Despite this, I cannot have files printed from basic Dos apps,
- ]such as MS Edit or DR DOSBOOK. The fact is that, to be installed as a
- ]TSR, Script requires two parameters: an input peripheral and an output
- ]peripheral. The two parameters cannot be the same. Now, my printer is
- ]connected to LPT1. If we assume that, for example, MS Edit prints by
- ]default to LPT1, I would have to tell Script to take all jobs directed to
- ]LPT1, elaborate them and send them to, say, LPT2 - which I just don't
- ]have.
-
- I see the confusion. I use it all the time and don't pay attention to
- the manual or the usage;-}
-
- The correct usage on a single port machine for script is:
-
- SCRIPT LPT1
-
- This takes all data sent to LPT1, converts it to postscript and then
- outputs it to the actual port. I believe that the interception point
- is INT17. Anyone writing to the port below this will probably bypass
- SCRIPT, but you'd have to check the trapped interrupts to verify that.
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