Commodore PC - The Print Command

30 MS-DOS User's Guide
Displaying a file
Example
Suppose you want to check your employees' salary figures. So you
decide to look at a file named salary.doc that is on the disk in the
default drive. To display the salary.doc file you would just follow
these steps:
Q] Make sure that the disk with the salary.doc file is in the
default drive (A).
HI At the ms-dos prompt, type the following command:
type 5alary.doc
[S Press the return key.
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ms-dos then displays the salary.doc file on the screen.
Helpful Hints If the file is too long to fit on the screen,
remember that you can press controls to prevent it from scroll
ing off the screen. When you press controls again, the file will
resume scrolling.
ms-dos displays only text files on the screen. So if you try to
display a program file (one with an extension of .com or .exe\
you will see only strange symbols on the screen.
If you have an application program that creates files, you may
need to run the application to view them.
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Printing a file
The Print Command
If you have a printer attached to your computer, you can print
files with the ms-dos print command. Assume, for example, that
you have a file named investmnt and want to print it on your
printer. You could use the following command:
dt int i nvest.mnt
Print a file (ms-dos
assumes this file is
on the disk in the
default drive.)...
I...named "investmnt"
Example
Say you have a file that contains a list of investors and their phone
numbers, and suppose you want to print this file and keep it near
your phone. The file is named investmnt and is on the disk in
drive B. Drive A is the default drive (A> is the prompt). To print
the investmnt file, you would just follow these steps:
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