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From: miller@b-mrda.boeing.com (Mark Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP! Using DOS print
Message-ID: <490003@b-mrda.boeing.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 16:35:26 GMT
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Organization: Manufacturing R&D Boeing Commercial Airplane Div.
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Jill:
	From the print options you specified, it doesn't sound like you're
looking for the PRINT command to do anything more than dump a file to
the printer. The only advantage to using PRINT is that PRINT uses a spooler
to do the trick. The disadvantage is that PRINT does load a memory-resident
segment that doesn't go away. I have two suggestions:

	1. If you don't need a spooler and you're not in a hurry, simply
open the file for reading and send it to stdprn (defaults to lpt1:) via
fprintf.

	2. If you're in a hurry, write a small custom spooler hanging
off the INT8 (timer tick) interrupt for your application. 

Either of these returns full control of the memory to you.

Good luck. Let me know how it works out.

				Mark Miller
				miller@b-mrda.boeing.com