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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: How do I send a binary file to a printer?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.012419.23549@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 01:24:19 GMT
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- 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.
-
- Assuming that you want to print file XYZ on drive A:
-
- Copy /b A:XYZ PRN
- or
- copy /b A:XYZ lpt1:
-
- The /b is to *force* the copy to be binary. Remember, as far as DOS
- is concerned the following are *all* just odd files:
- NUL
- CON
- PRN
- AUX
- COM1
- COM2
- COM3
- COM4
- LPT1
- LPT2
- LPT3
-
- Some can't be read from, they can all be written to.
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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