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- From: bevans@mta.ca
- Subject: Re: How do I send a binary file to a printer?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.014525.27506@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:45:25 GMT
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- In <6536@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> georgew@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (George Walker) writes:
- >
- >I'm running Windows and I have a crummy printer, but I have access to
- >another PC running DOS that has a laser printer. If I do a "print to file"
- >from my word processor under Windows, with the correct printer setup, and
- >then take that file to the DOS machine, how do I print the file? My DOS
- >manual says that the DOS "print" command is only for text files.
-
- >Thanks for any help.
-
- COPY the file to the device (e.g. LPT1:) with the /b switch which:
- "causes MS-DOS to copy data to the device in binary mode...all characters
- (including special control characters) are copied to the device as data."
-
- -from TFM
-
- Bill
-