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From: mtvfb@rivm39.rivm.nl (Fokke de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Printer redirection (again?)
Summary: how to redirect output to file; print without having a printer
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.075156.12567@rivm.nl>
Date: 19 Mar 91 07:51:56 GMT
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Originator: mtvfb@rivm39

Hello netlanders,

Some time ago there was a thread on ** PRINTER REDIRECTION ** on c.s.a.st.
I didn't follow it back then, because I had no need for redirection.

But as always, nothing changes as much as the human mind :-) so now
I **AM** interested. 
Sofar I have tried the program BARREL from atari.archive, but it doesn't
fill my needs. I have some programs capable of printing, but since I don't
have a fine printer I want to use the printer at work, but I don't want
to bring my ST every time.
These programs don't react to BARREL being resident: the print option is
still disabled. And printing from WordPerfect running under DOS (PC-Speed)
reports the printer being not ready.
So, what I need is a program that makes the Atari think a printer is 
connected, although there isn't. Printer output should be redirected to 
a file (and not to a buffer that has to be transferred manually to file).
Ideally, this program runs from the AUTO folder, and thereafter I "have
a software-printer" .

Any input appreciated, preferably by e-mail!

Fokke de Boer (mtvfb@rivm39.rivm.nl)