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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: A useful .COM proggy:
Article: 8656 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley) Subject: Re: A useful .COM proggy: Message-ID: DF9B2x.7J8@uns.bris.ac.uk Sender: usenet@uns.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk Reply-To: David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Bristol, England X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 13:06:33 GMT Approved: by me Lines: 23 Status: RO
Michael Jarvis (mjarvis@qns2.qns.com) wrote: : Well, if we're going to do SIMPLE com files, here's one. It just sends a : formfeed to lpt1. It's useful if you do a "type foo.txt > lpt1" and your : printer doesn't automagically send a formfeed. : It's only 17 bytes: : begin 755 ff.com : 1LP2Q`;H0`;1`S2&X`$S-(0S] : ` : end Hmm, I usually just do: echo ^L > prn (that's control-L for the newbies) David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~hedley/ finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK *** All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone ***
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