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From: jkg@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Patches for MSDOS echo off + some other pathes (Dos 3.2)
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 12:18:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 12:18:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 22:29:05 EDT
References: <1013@ark.cs.vu.nl>
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In article <1013@ark.cs.vu.nl> maartenj@cs.vu.nl (Huisjes Maarten Jan) writes:
>
>   AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION OF PRINTER FOR DOS PRINT

I see this patch periodically and wonder about its usefulness. I have MS-DOS
3.1 running on an AT&T PC 6300 and I can automatically install the printer
from my AUTOEXEC.BAT file by including the following line:

	print/d:prn/q:32 > nul

It sets the default device to PRN and the queue size to 32 (the max, I think).
Is this feature particular to my version of DOS or is it more widely available?
I have never understood the desire by some folks to patch the OS when the 
feature they want is already available (the recent posting of patches for 
default ECHO OFF in DOS 3.30 is a good example).

I suspect that the user manuals are less than crystal clear on some of the 
more obscure features (some are probably undocumented), but any respectable
user's group (or readers of USENET for that matter) can provide people with
the information they want. Why resort to kludgy patches?

						Jim Greenlee
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