Are you really doing OUTPUT PRINTER, WRITE "HELLO", etc? If these commands
are on the same line, you need to use the ; character between commands.
Also, are quotes set to " or ' ?
It might need be... OUTPUT PRINTER; WRITE 'HELLO'; NEW; OUTPUT SCREEN
Also try, from the R> ZIP COMMAND /C DIR *.RB1 > LPT1:
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-----Original Message-----
From: tellef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:29 AM
To: INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Revisiting printing from DOS - an explanation
> This may be a dumb question but are the WRITE commands preceded by
>OUTPUT PRINTER in the application files? You don't really say. I have
2.11
>apps here running under Win 9.x that use WRITE commands to a LaserJet and
>they work just fine.
>Bernie
Yes all their programs use OUTPUT PRINTER. We tried it from the r>
prompt also. Doing OUTPUT PRINTER, WRITE "HELLO", NEW, OUTPUT SCREEN
only shoots out a blank. (I'm sorry I didn't mention in my previous email
that I WAS putting a "new" after every command; several people thought that
might be my problem.) Doing this to my brand new LaserJet works fine.
It appears to be a difference with her "very cheap" (her words) Lexmark
ink jet.
