crimmins@uiucuxc.cso.uiuc.edu (12/05/86)
/* Written 10:21 pm Dec 3, 1986 by csc@riccb.UUCP in uiucuxc:comp.sys.ibm.pc */ >Can anyone out there in net land tell me how to redirect the line printer >to a file. Most print spooling programs allow you to halt output to the printer and collect data in a buffer, which can be copied out to disk when printing is complete. The one I've seen work best is Print Buffer On-Line, from IBM (maybe from their Personally Developed Series?). If you need more info, let me know. ---- Dan Crimmins University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computing Services Office - PC Consulting Dept. BITNET: crimmins@uiucuxc.bitnet ARPA: crimmins@uiucuxc.cso.uiuc.edu CSNET: crimmins@uiucuxc.csnet UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!crimmins ICBM: 40 07 N / 88 13 W
mds7958@ritcv.UUCP (Mark Sicignano) (12/08/86)
I have MS-DOS 3.1 and there is a program called xassign which will do this. I have used it like this. xassign lpt1=filename I don't have the manual right in front of me, but I think that is how is is done
kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge) (12/09/86)
>Can anyone out there in net land tell me how to redirect the line printer >to a file. > I've used MSC 4.0 to redirect printer output to a file. Since open files are kept in child processes, I freopen() stdprn as a file, then spawn a copy of command.com. This copy has lpt1: redirected to the file. You can do whatever you wish from DOS or an application that uses DOS calls to write to lpt1:, and have the output show up in that file. After "exit"ing from the copy of command.com, fclose the file. The DOS version was 2.0 and I haven't tried it under 3.1 yet. -- Don Kneller UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller ARPA: kneller@cgl.ucsf.edu BITNET: kneller@ucsfcgl.BITNET