[Tutor] A Newbie Printing Question

Jacob S. keridee at jayco.net
Fri Apr 1 01:25:33 CEST 2005


> 1) For plain text use the old DOS trick of sending output direct
>   to the PRN: file/device - I can't remember if this still works
>   in XP but I can't think why not...

The only reason I can think of is that Windows XP is not directly based on
DOS, wereas the other versions were.  In so doing, they have lost a lot of 
compatibility with many things. Old DOS games no longer work, some DOS 
commands do not work in their mock command prompt, etc.

Jacob 



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