From: Myknees <Myknees AT aol DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:36:04 EDT
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Re: using bash & doskey -- ^p Write fault error writing device PRN Abort, Retr
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In a message dated 98-04-28 06:57:12 EDT, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il writes:

> Subj:	 Re: using bash & doskey -- ^p Write fault error writing device PRN 
> Abort, Retr
>  Date:	98-04-28 06:57:12 EDT
>  From:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
>  To:	Myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
>  CC:	broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
>  
>  
>  On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Myknees wrote:
>  
>  > Thank you and Eli Z. for the explanations.  I'm still not sure why DOS 
> acts
>  > like that
>  
>  You mean, you don't know that Ctrl-P toggles the feature which causes
>  each line to be echoed to the printer?

(Ahem.)  No...I did not know that.  I have an HP deskjet, and I had assumed
that only line printers did that, but now that I try it, it works with the
deskjet too.  I had no clue.  I get around in DOS, but I do realize that there
are probably serious gaps in what I know.  

-- Ed (Myknees)