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Subject: Re: printing > 10 files
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 19:51:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 18 19:51:22 1986
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Reply-To: tim@tomcat.caltech.edu (Tim Kay)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: use copy rather than print

Organization : California Institute of Technology
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From: tim@tomcat.Caltech.Edu (Tim Kay)
Path: tomcat!tim

michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (Michael Maxwell) writes:
>make some kind of a loop like the following in a batch file:
>	for %F in * print1 %F
>The file print1.bat would contain something like:
>	print %1
>	
>--taking advantage of the fact that "print", w/o any arguments, just tells you
>what's in the queue.  But there are several problems with this idea; how do
>you get DOS to sleep? (I'd like to not worry about programming in assembler,
>  [etc.,etc.,...]

Rather than

	print file

why don't you use

	copy file prn

This will print the file and then return to the batch file.  You might have
to add a command to page eject after each file, such as

	echo ^L > prn

Is this what you are after?

Timothy L. Kay				tim@csvax.caltech.edu
Department of Computer Science
Caltech, 256-80
Pasadena, CA  91125