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Printing via COM1 in pseudo Dos for Win9x

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Name: B Newman
Date: January 10, 2000 at 13:44:27 Pacific
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I need to send clean text files to the COM1 port from Win 9x pseudo DOS shell. Thanks to Dean, I now know that using the following command can do that:
C:>\PRINT textfile.txt >> COM1
(where textfile.txt contains, say, the word 'hello')
I get on my COM1 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' print queue message?

I tried setting up a batch file as follows:

@echo off
PRINT textfile.txt >> COM1

and this does not suppress the print queue message.

Any ideas? Help is greatly needed.




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Name: Dean
Date: January 10, 2000 at 15:37:36 Pacific
Reply:

How about this:

type textfile.txt >>com1

Should do the same thing.


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