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From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (Michael Maxwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: printing > 10 files
Message-ID: <109@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 16:10:05 EST
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.109
Posted: Mon Dec 22 16:10:05 1986
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Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <88@bcsaic.UUCP> michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (me) writes:
>I have a friend who wants to collect lots of files in a telecommunications
>session, then print them later on (like overnight).  The trouble is that
>MS-DOS, wretched excuse for an OS that it is, only allows 10 files to be in
>the print queue at a time.  And since the print command just queues things up,
>you can't just run it in a loop and tell it to print one file after another.
>(It will go through the loop 10 times, then die.)

Thanks to all who replied; no need to keep those cards and letters coming.
For anyone who may be interested, the solutions are generally of the form--
	for %F in * type %F > lpt1:
--`type' of course does not start up a background process, so the loop prints
out one file after another.  (I haven't tested it yet, but I'm hoping the
expansion of "*" into 137 file names won't cause the command line to exceed
DOS's limitation on the length of a command line...)
-- 
Mike Maxwell
Boeing Advanced Technology Center
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