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- VPRINT
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- Purpose: Creates a "virtual printer" by redirecting
- all printer output to a disk file.
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- Format: VPRINT [filespec] [/N]
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- Type: Internal External
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- Remarks: Printer output is redirected to the
- specified file, or if none is given, to
- VIRTUAL.PRN. To avoid overwriting
- existing data, no redirection occurs if
- the file is already in the directory.
- Output is buffered up until a sector's
- worth of data is available.
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- The command VPRINT /N cancels redirection
- and flushes the buffer to disk.
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- The primary intended use of VPRINT is
- the simplified creation of formatted DOS
- files from Easywriter. By printing to
- disk, it is not necessary to manually add
- end of paragraph markers at the end of
- each line, or to use the Easywriter
- utility TRANSFER.
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- Note: VPRINT is still in an experimental form.
- Use of the PrtSc key while redirection
- is in effect will cause a system crash.
- On the author's 64K system, a single 5
- digit number overwrites five charactors
- near the beginning of any file loaded by
- Easywriter. This overwrite can be
- corrected with the editor prior to
- printing.
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- Developed by David Whitman
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