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From: spear@druco.ATT.COM (SpearmanS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Unbuffered printing in vpix?
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Date: 8 Jan 91 22:13:05 GMT
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Under Simultask 3.0, I get lots of complaints from users
that their DOS programs don't fully print out until they
exit DOS.  There is the 'flush' command from the DOS command
line to flush the buffer and cause printing to finish, but
it requires leaving the application package often.

The best I've come up with is running a TSR that can pop up
a DOS prompt and let me 'flush' the print queue.  Is there
any other way to get an automatic (perhaps timed) flush
so that a print occurs fairly normally from a DOS user's 
perspective?

Thanks

Steve Spearman  spear@druco.att.com