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From: daniel@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (The Amazing Daniel Winker)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Does a BPRINT command exist?
Keywords: printer, background
Message-ID: <9648@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 91 16:19:57 GMT
Organization: Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN
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I got a bright idea this morning, but it did not work.  I was working
on a five file schematic using my PC cad program.  It takes a long
time to plot a schematic on the Laserjet, and the cad program can't do
anything else while that's happening.

BRIGHT IDEA:
I sent schematic page 1 to file SCH1.PRN, exited cad, typed
"PRINT SCH1.PRN" to which MS-DOS responed "C:\CAD\SCH1.PRN is
currently being printed".  I then restarted the cad system and began
working on schematic page2.  "Nice goin' Winker" I said to myself.

WHAT DIDN'T WORK:
It seems the MS-DOS (Ver3.3) PRINT command doesn't like graphics files.

HOW CAN YOU HELP:
Does anyone know of a background printer program, like PRINT, which
can handle graphics files?  Thanx from all who could use the infomation.

			T.T.F.N. (Ta Ta For Now, Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne)