Easiest way to print from XP/DOS.

[Tim Roberts]

jim-on-linux <inq1ltd at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>Did you run from a file or type in from keyboard?
>
>When the client runs the utility program  the 
>output file is built but nothing prints and no 
>messages appear. When I typed from keyboard on an 
>xp pro at c:\, I got the message.
>
>Is it possible that  virus detector or some 
>self.defense software is interacting?

It is quite possible that they simply do not have a printer hooked up to
their computer's parallel port.  If all of your printers are from network
shares, then the special file "prn" will not go anywhere.

Typing to "prn" is a dreadful way to do printing on Windows.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.