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From: dukelow@noscvax.UUCP (Robert A. Dukelow)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Need help with printer I/O redirection
Message-ID: <883@noscvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 19:22:56 EST
Article-I.D.: noscvax.883
Posted: Thu Apr 11 19:22:56 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 02:12:01 EST
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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I'm looking for help with a problem.  I have a commercial program (i.e.
don't have sources) which outputs to the printer. Does anyone have any
suggestions as to how I might be able to redirect the output to a file?
I am running DOS 2.0 on an IBM-PC/XT.  The obvious solution is to write
a shell which traps the DOS calls and run the program under that.
Problem is that covers a lot of unfamiliar ground for me. Maybe there
are simpler solutions? I know you can redirect standard input and output
but don't see any indication in the DOS manuals that this can be done
for the printer.

If nobody has any direct solutions, then how about some pointers as to
how to execute arbitrary programs from TURBO Pascal. I would especially
appreciate any code that can be used as an example, but any suggestions
would also help. I'm not anxious to reinvent the wheel and I suspect
there are some pitfalls along the way.

				Thanks in advance,
				Bob Dukelow (dukelow@nosc)