revelation

From: John Larkin (jjlarkin_at_highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:53:19 -0700

I have an old DOS program P1.EXE that I wrote to print plain text on
my LaserJet. So I go into a DOS prompt from Windows, and type

   P1 path\filename.txt to print without any nonsense.

So, after lo all these years, I discover that I can, in Windows, just
drag and drop a file on top of a P1.EXE icon, and it prints!

This is either a great discovery, or I'm years of "duh" behind the
curve.

John

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