From: "Peter Lewerin" <peter DOT lewerin AT krax DOT pp DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Printing (IBM)
Date: 18 May 1997 12:13:28 GMT
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Henk Uijterwaal <henk AT ripe DOT net> skrev i inlägg
<337B2A98 DOT 4487EB71 AT ripe DOT net>...
> Under DJGPP, I tried 
> 
>     system ("print prn: some_random_name");

An alternative to using the PRINT utility is to use the COPY internal
command to copy the file to PRN, LPT1, LPT2 or whatever, like this:

    system( "command /c copy some_random_name prn" );

(I think you're not supposed to use the colon after the device name in the
command line.)  This code is untested, as I don't have a printer here.

I have no idea of what happens if two processes try this at the same time.