DOS printing from FP menu

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bob Rasmussen (Tue, 4 Oct 2005 21:25:00 -0700 (PDT)):
[...]
> > > > print /d:\\servername\sharname filename
[...]
> The "print" command has been broken for a long time! It was an early DOS
> command that started a print in the background, and then returned
> control
> to the user. Some folks asked "How did they do that?", and reverse
> engineered it. That was the start of Terminate-and-Stay-Resident (TSR)
> programs in DOS. They were quite tricky. Some versions of Anzio could do
> this.
>
> I don't know what its current status is, but I have avoided it for
> years. I generally do the COPY method as you were shown, although I
> usually add a "/b" flag, for "binary", to make sure my 8-bit data goes
> through.

Well, on XP (and I presume the rest of the NT series, including 2K and
2K3) it's a 32-bit console app.  It probably doesn't do much more than
a "copy /b" does.

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