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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Redirection in Pascal
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.174737.16317@uwasa.fi>
Date: 9 Nov 90 17:47:37 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.001233.16525@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1990Nov8.001233.16525@athena.mit.edu> fmbasas@athena.mit.edu (Fred M Basas) writes:
>Hi!  I'm relatively new to this group, so forgive me if this topic has
>been touched upon before.
>
>Is there a way in TP 5.5 to redirect all printer output to a file on disk.
>I mean this for any program, not one that I'm writing.  I'm looking for a
>simple solution (i.e. no TSRs if at all possible) for this if there is one.

To redirect (not only the printer, but any output) one simply uses
assign within a Turbo Pascal program.  That is what it is for. 
(Consider the meaning of the word assign.  It figures, right). 
Example:
  uses printer;
  begin
    assign (lst, 'testfile');
    rewrite (lst);
    writeln (lst, 'Hello world');
    close (lst);
  end.

But if you want to redirect printing to a file (as you obviously do)
of any program, your question has nothing to do with Turbo Pascal in
particular.  Then you need a TSR.  Such programs (e.g. 
/pc/pd2/lptx.zip) can be found on uwasa.fi archives by anonymous ftp
or mail server. 

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