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Microsoft warns against disabling Windows legacy feature that can unlock huge performance (www.neowin.net)
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[โ€“] hayvan@piefed.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Other DOS reserved names include PRN, LPT1, LPT2...

copy file.txt prn was an interesting shortcut for printing things 35 years ago.

[โ€“] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 days ago

copy file.txt prn was an interesting shortcut for printing things 35 years ago.

The Linux equivalent of that is cat file.txt > /dev/lp0. It still works if you have a parallel port printer that accepts plain text.