Hi Murray,
 You wrote me:

 ML> The solution is to set the printer driver for the
"IBMNULL" printer, so
 ML> you have a straight-though ASCII printer with no automatic reset.  This
 ML> may or may not cause problems, depending on the application mix.
 This solution works fine with me!

 ML> BTW, I write the little printer setup programs in 16-bit assembly
 ML> language and link them as DOS COM programs, running them in a VDM.
 Sure, with IBMNULL I'm still able to use my old favourite in a VDM. It was
assembled in 1988 with MASM 4.0. I managed to use OS/2 systemfunctions like
IOCtl in C, but I haven't got the faintest idea how to write OS/2 applications
via assembler.

 73 es cuagn,
 Henk

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