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From: kemp@cs.umn.edu (Stuart R. Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Printing from Turbo Pascal
Keywords: Help!!
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.214354.15756@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 21:43:54 GMT
References: <9909@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept.
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In article <9909@pyr.gatech.EDU> mlw@pyr.gatech.edu.gatech.edu (Michael Williams) writes:
>I also thought about exec'ing the DOS print command to attempt to print in 
>the so-called "background".  However, that involves calling a TSR from a 
>program, which is probably not a good idea.
>
>Any suggestions???

Instead of invoking DOS print from within the program, why not
invoke it *before* you start the program, and then just submit the
file to be printed? This can be done via an interrupt call.

-Stuart Kemp