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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: AUTOMATING Z1OO PRINT COMMAND
Message-ID: <601@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 23 Mar 88 00:08:41 GMT
References: <[E.ISI.EDU]14-Mar-88.18:30:01.SAC.LGSM.FRANK>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
Lines: 26
Summary: Patch z100 print command

In article <[E.ISI.EDU]14-Mar-88.18:30:01.SAC.LGSM.FRANK>, SAC.LGSM.FRANK@E.ISI.EDU writes:
>         In an issue of BYTE magazine last year, in the "Best of
> Bix" column, they detailed a command you could place in
> AUTOEXEC.BAT.  This command made the PRINT command resident, so
> that when you executed the PRINT command, it would not stop and
> print out: Output To Device [PRN].  A minor keystroke saver, but
> convenient.
> 
>         The command is:"PRINT /D: PRN:" This works perfectly for
> Z248's, but does nothing for the Z1OO.  So, does anyone know a
> similar command which will work under DOS 2.X, for Z1OO's?  When
> I run the Z248 version, the system types: "Resident part of PRINT
> installed", followed by "Print queue is empty".
> 
	I submitted the following to BIX and it was later published in the
BEST OF BIX.

print <return >nul

where return was created by:

copy con return

CTRL-Z

That blank line is where you hit the return key.