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- From: rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Suppressing the Ctrl-D prepend on Postscript files
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.221239.29946@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 22:12:39 GMT
- Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
- Organization: Michigan State University
- Lines: 23
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- Several folks gave advice on suppressing the damnable desire of
- Windows to prepend a Ctrl-D to Postscript print files. The advice was
- to add to WIN.INI:
-
- [PostScript,LPT2]
- ATM=placeholder
- ctrld=0
-
- [PostScript,COM1]
- ATM=placeholder
- ctrld=0
-
- ..and to add the 'ctrld=' wherever a printer or port was defined.
- I did so, and the problem persists. In my case, I'm printing to
- a file, not to a printer port. So I added the assignment statement
- anywhere that seemed remotely resident. Still Windows slavishly adds
- the Ctrl-D. (And yes I did reboot...)
-
- Any other suggestions? Is it possible this doesn't work for prints to
- user-specified file names? Is it too much to ask for Microsoft to
- document this, or better yet provide a visible switch to turn it off?
-
- /Rich Wiggins, Michigan State U
-