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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Extracting text from .INF files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.043127.18632@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <mark.726138821@snark> <1ia8ejINN4i@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1993Jan5.210544.29141@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:31:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.210544.29141@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >>I guessing and may be showing my ignorance. I wonder if this is what
- >>the IBMNULL driver that is always loaded does. If I were trying to do
- >>something like what you are, I would create a new printer (drag a printer
- >>object out of the Template folder) and click on IBMNULL for the driver
- >>and output to a file checkbox and then the Create pushbutton. If you
- >>get no better suggestions try it and see.
- >Perhaps, but I don't think so. I've installed the IBMNULL driver.
- >(BTW, you must install it - from printer disk 1, then re-apply the CSD
- >- a quick operation the second time around. If you don't actually
- >install IBMNULL, you don't get anything from that driver) When I use
- >IBMNULL to print text files, I get strait text, but when an app tries
- >to print graphics (or ATM fonts) using it, the printer gets old
- >Epson/IBM 9-pin graphics. I've no problem, since my printer is an
- >Epson, but it won't be what you want.
-
- For OS/2 applications that do not have print selection mechanisms you
- need to make the IBMNULL print object the default. To do so, click on
- the IBMNULL printer object you've created with mouse button two, then
- select the appropriate menu option.
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