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From: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: redirect lpt1: to file
Message-ID: <9960@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 16:39:25 EST
Article-I.D.: cgl.9960
Posted: Mon Dec  8 16:39:25 1986
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Reply-To: kneller@cgl.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Don Kneller)
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, UCSF
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>Can anyone out there in net land tell me how to redirect the line printer
>to a file.
>
I've used MSC 4.0 to redirect printer output to a file.  Since open
files are kept in child processes, I freopen() stdprn as a file, then
spawn a copy of command.com.  This copy has lpt1:  redirected to the
file.  You can do whatever you wish from DOS or an application that
uses DOS calls to write to lpt1:, and have the output show up in that
file.  After "exit"ing from the copy of command.com, fclose the file.
The DOS version was 2.0 and I haven't tried it under 3.1 yet.
-- 
	Don Kneller
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