From: raekman AT news DOT abo DOT fi (Raine M. Ekman)
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Subject: Re: Output to the Printer
Date: 10 Mar 1997 15:36:16 GMT
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Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu) wrote:
: DEVICE and DEVICE: are not exactly equivilant. Some DOS commands 
: recognize DEVICE: but it is actually incorrect. This is simple to prove. 
: Type these commands at the DOS prompt:
: 
: truename PRN
: truename PRN:

I typed "truename LPT1" on two different machines. One gave me "1" and the 
other "C:/LPT1". Looks a bit weird to me :-)

But LPT1: wasn't found.. that's like it should be.

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