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- From: koopal@fwi.uva.nl (Andre Koopal)
- Subject: Re: Help: Software is here, printer is there
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.131844.6188@fwi.uva.nl>
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- References: <1992Nov15.010641.28325@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:18:44 GMT
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- garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin) writes:
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-
- > I have an interesting problem. I'd like to print a couple of Word
- >for Windows files on my friend's laserprinter. However, she neither
- >has nor has room for both windows and WfW on her computer. So, rather
- >than moving hardware about, I figured I could just print the file,
- >redirecting the printer output to a file, then copy the file from the
- >disk to her laserprinter.
-
- > However, when I did this, I got some rather peculiar output. Only
- >the first two lines of the file printed, and the rest of the page was
- >blank. (I also had to press the print button, since no EOP was sent,
- >but I can live with that.) She has an IBM Laserprinter E, and I'm
- >using the Windows IBM Laserprinter 4019 driver, which the manual
- >indicated would be correct.
-
- > So does anybody know why I'm getting this odd output, and, more
- >importantly, how I can fix it?
-
- > -Gary
-
- Dit you use a binary copy: copy /b file prn:
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- The command 'print' cannot print binary files :-(
-
- Andre
- >|Gary Brainin |BITNET: garygm%leland.stanford.edu@stanford|
-
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