Hello John!

Replying to a message of John Thomas to Erik Huelsmann:

 JT> Re: fake lpt4 driver

 >> It does, that is, under WPS it does, but it does not work on the OS/2
 >> command line. Doing the following instruction: copy config.sys lpt4
 >> results in a file called lpt4 in my root directory, instead of a
 >> config.sys through the fax.

 JT> Shouldn't that be

 JT> copy config.sys lpt4:
 JT>                     ^----  ??
No, the ":" is inherited from CP/M, Dos still recognises it, but
OS/2 gives you the following error:

SYS0002: The system cannot find the file specified.
"lpt4:CONFIG.SYS"

(using 4os2)

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