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Ah, ignore the first bit - just seen that Goodson is your Distributor for the printer.
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Does this mean that you are an "intern" at Goodson?

Who is "Goodson"?


No, this has nothing to do with the printer at all.
This simply configures the baud rate (9600), parity (none), number of data bits (8), and number of stop bits (1) for the PC's COM1: port.

It doesn't cause the PC to send anything, and has no effect whatsoever on anything connected to the port - including your printer.


I think that should actually be

dir>com1:

(note the colon)


It sends the output of the dir command to the COM1: port - it neither knows nor cares what may or may not be connected to that COM port!


If you didn't understand what he was telling you, you should have asked him to explain it!


Is that going to be a valid command that DOS will understand??

To have what you type in a command prompt copied to the com port, type:

copy CON: COM1:

To escape from this, type Ctrl+Z, then hit Enter.