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From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kaaven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Getting INFO M-x print-node to actually print?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:28:43 GMT
Organization: Vplan Programvare AS
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References: <1997Apr16 DOT 130645 DOT 28288 AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu>
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mwood AT indyvax DOT iupui DOT edu (Mark H. Wood) wrote:

>Silly newbie question:  what is everybody using to support INFO's
>M-x print-node command?  It wants to pipe into a command that will Do The Right
>Thing, but I haven't been able to find a command that will copy standard input
>to a file (e.g. LPT1:) without using redirection (which appears not to work in
>this context).

Redirection works, you just have to protect it from the shell when
setting the command. I used:
set INFO_PRINT_COMMAND="cat >prn"


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