[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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