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How do you print to COM1 in pseudo DOS?

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Is there anyway to send an ascii file (textfile.txt) to the COM1 port using Win 9x pseudo DOS environment? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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print textfile.txt >> com1

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Awesome!!! Thanks for good help. now one more thing....Please! When I type in: C:>\PRINT textfile.txt >> com1 (textfile.txt contains, say, 'hello') I get on my printer the following: C:\Textfile.txt is currently being printed hello Is there any way to suppress the 'C:\Textfile.txt is currently being printed' message? Any ideas? I tried setting up a batch file as follows: @echo off PRINT textfile.txt >> com1 and this does not suppress the print queue message.

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CANNOT GET INTO DOS!!!!!

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