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No cost way to print to USB port



Okay, thinking more about the $105 charge for DOSPRINT, I realized that I
can get the same results for cost $0 by using Tim Baehr's (I think it was
Tim's) wordpad program.
This program takes a defined selection or a whole file and puts it in
WordPad. From there, all I have to do is hit the printer icon. I don't know
how to launch WordPad with a file AND instruct it to print that file. I
don't know if more recent versions than mine of 4DOS allow you to pass
keystrokes from a batch file to a Windows program, but I couldn't get that
to happen with my very old version of 4DOS.
Still, this is a very simple solution. All you have to do is assign to a
key the commands to tys the file then run the wordpad.pgm (I have renamed
that program to pad.pgm--I forget what Tim named it originally.)

nn==bxt,y,s,q2bx,r,u,n, ,p,a,d,.,p,g,m,q2bxa,b,q2
Following our gurus' advice, I eliminate commas where possible. After printing, and closing Wordpad, it aborts the review.tmp file created by tys.

Harry Binswanger
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