From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: fd_props, what is it?
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:22:33 -0600 (CST)
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> I was wondering *exactly* the same thing, but more from the bash command line. It 
> would be nice, for instance, to map /dev/lpt1 to /dev/lp0 and so forth.
> Shell script compatibilty option ;-)

This would be easy - look in src\libc\dos\io\putpath.c - some are already
mapped.  But I wonder if this is the right thing for lpt1 since many 
printers are no longer ascii capable (need some windows driver...)