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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: disable printer via software
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.164617.11199@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 16:46:17 GMT
Reply-To: ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Organization: Nyx -- Public access Unix, U. of Denver, dept. of Math/CS
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rather than shorting pins on the parallel port, i'd disable the printer
by patching the executable file - change "prn" to "nul".

"nul" is dos' null device - i.e. the bit-bucket, and is sometimes 
useful.  for example, if i want to make sure that a floppy is readable\
i do the following:

copy/v a:\*.* nul:


terrell