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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Printing problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.194510.27018@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <ANDERS.92Sep8134840@ipcsun1.his.se>
- Distribution: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:45:10 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- anders@ipcsun1.his.se (Anders Eklund) writes:
-
- >I am writing a program which runs on a Novell network. The normal
- >printing procedure is that i use stdprn which works just fine.
- >The text is captured and written on a network printer. The problem
- >is that I now want to be able to write to a local and a network
- >printer at the same time, not simultaneously of course. Is it possible
- >to override this capturing effect or is there another way? I would
- >be most greatful for any answer.
-
- If you can write to a different LPT port, you can CAPTURE L=# etc... where
- # is the LPT port to which you are writing (default is 1). Thus, you could
- write to _that_ CAPTUREd port to go to the network (any queue), but still
- use stdprn to go to the local LPT1 device.
-
- -JTT
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