Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 19:53:56 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com, kagel AT ts1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
Subject: Re: your mail RE: mine on Strange problem.
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> Symantec C++) and long ago ported to UNIX for it's features, one of which is
> writing directly to the spooler (lp or lpr) on UNIX or to PRN: on DOS.  On
> porting it back to DOS/DJGPP I noticed that writing to LPT1:/PRN: would
> furiously churn the disk but produce nothing!  I have taken to writing the
> output to disk and then printing that from DOS.

That one's easy: DOS doesn't recognize LPT1: or PRN: as special when you
attach a colon to them.  Use LPT1, PRN, etc., and it will work.