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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: ASCII textfile print
- Message-ID: <124.129.uupcb@oosight.status.gen.nz>
- From: david.white@oosight.status.gen.nz (David White)
- Date: 11 Jan 93 08:37:00 GMT
- Reply-To: david.white@oosight.status.gen.nz (David White)
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- Organization: OUT OF SIGHT BBS, Auckland, New Zealand, 64-9-298-3805
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- fgd3@nifty.UUCP, Fabbian G. Dufoe, III writes:
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- >
- >(Stephen Gibson) writes:
- >>
- >(Donald J Roufa) writes:
- >>>Does anyone know of or have access to a MS-Windows 3.x printer driver
- >>>which can be used to print plain ASCII text to a disk file for
- >>>purposes of transmitting the files via email and/or other electronic
- >>>media? The printer should strip all print attributes (bold,
- >>
- >>Pardon me, but wouldn't it be easier to use your applications "Save As
- >>Text" option (or something similar). Or you could use a text editor
- >>such as Notepad...
- >>What benefits does printing ASCII text to disk give you?
- >
- > When you edit a file with Notepad, Write, or Works for Windows you get
- >carriage returns at the end of a paragraph. In Notepad you can turn on
- >WordWrap to see lines stop at the right edge of the window. In the other
- >programs word wrap is automatic. Unfortunately, when you "Save As...
- >Text" all that nice formatting is lost. The file is written with
- >carriage returns at the end of paragraphs, not at the end of each line.
- >
- >...
- > One solution I've found is WordPerfect 4.2, which puts a "soft return"
- >at the end of each line. When you save the file as ASCII it translates
- >those soft returns into real carriage returns...
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- Word for Windows has the option to SaveAs "Text file with line breaks"
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- david white
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