Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!dal1!rb
From: rb@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Printing from Turbo Pascal
Summary: EXEC DOS PRINT from TP program
Keywords: TP PRINT EXEC
Message-ID: <1280@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 1 Mar 90 09:15:56 GMT
References: <9909@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Lines: 17
Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <9909@pyr.gatech.EDU>, mlw@pyr.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???

It is a good idea to always put 'PRINT /d:lpt1' in your autoexec.bat. Then
it will always be loaded, and there will be no problem EXECing it from a TP
program. If it is not loaded already, it will load itself below the calling
program, and then you will have problems.
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