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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: bypassing the OS/2 printer driver (aye Scotty)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.231813.8843@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep1.004721.250@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:18:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.004721.250@cco.caltech.edu> hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) writes:
- >I have a really dumb DOS program that will only print to a file
- >with an extension .out. This means that I can't use LPT1.OS2 as
- >a means of speeding up printing.
- >Since this is a graphics program printing to LPT1 is very slow. Anyone
- >got any clever schemes that would allow this program to bypass the
- >OS/2 print driver and print directly to the spooler.
-
- Try using LPT1.OUT -- it doesn't particularly matter what extension
- you use. LPT1.TMP, LPT1.A, LPT1.BUZ -- all those work just fine.
-
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