Windows, std OS in Hell

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Fri Nov 9 21:18:54 2001

At 09:46 AM 11/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>There are lpr drivers available as shareware or commercial
>products for Win3.x, Win95 and higher.
>
>Most of the third party add on printer servers come with an lpr
>capability for Win9x and there's a shareware one on Simtel for
>Windows 3.x with a winsock.
>
>Lan Workplace also had one from Novell.

Yup, but MS never included/coded it as they felt there was little use for
that support... I really doubt that wfw would have come about except MS was
cheesed off that novell was running on top of Dos and under windows to give
regular windows users (and dos users) networking support.
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 21:18:54 GMT