I was mesing around with the "Print to File" feature when I was printing a document yesterday. It saved the file as a .prn file.. My question is, WHAT THE HELL OPENS/READS A .PRN File made by Print to File?????????? WHAT READS A PRN FILE?

Either a printer that is the same as the printer installed at the time you made the .prn file... or... If you installed a Generic/text-only printer driver, then you can 'print to file' and the resultant 'text file' with .prn extension will open in any word-processor/text editor (Wordpad/Notepad etc...). It's hang over from the days when printers were not 'cheap'. You might have wished to send the file to someone to print on their printer - which might be different to yours - and you either did the Generic/text-only mode and shipped that to them; or loaded the drivers for their printer on your PC, made the .prn file and shipped it to them. They could then print it from their system... I use it occasionally to save - instead of a print out - System summaries from within Control-panel\system\device info. etc... - There is no 'official'/M$ way to save that info to disk... and the .prn is a useful workaround. Also means that you can receive the same (system) data from another distant PC, should you wish/need to (without access to a LAN); the user there makes the .prn file and sends it to you...

You can print PRN files, but only in a DOS window [;-) Try this copy /b *.prn lpt1 and watch .... DiskMan