Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!jes From: jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: print slave must die! Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 90 01:02:58 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Lines: 24 We have a PC which isn't connected to any printer (either parallel or serial). Of course, every time some unsuspecting user accidently hits ^P, the poor PC is hung as DOS tries in vain to slave the printer, and the poor confused user comes running to me for help. Does anyone know how to kill (with extreme prejudice) this 'feature'? I generally shy away from patching binaries, but I'm willing to make an exception here if necessary. Do the PD printer->file TSRs/drivers handle this? If so can you recommend one? This might actually be the most desirable solution since we do all the printing remotely by tcp/ip so we frequently need to capture printer output. Does anyone know why this mis-feature/vestigial tail still exists?