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PRN

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope

Short for printer, PRN is the name MS-DOS assigns to the first parallel port. For example, MS-DOS may report a "Not Ready Writing Device PRN. (A)bort (R)etry (F)ail" error message if MS-DOS cannot access or send information to the printer port.

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