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- From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
- Subject: Re: PRINT.EXE a binary file?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.001106.24945@newstand.syr.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 00:11:05 EDT
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- In@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (~{QG9p~}) writes:
- >...
- >PRINT.EXE via the DOS multiplex interrupt calls so that it can
- >be printed in the background. Everything worked perfectly
- >until some bytes with values 0x0D or 0x1B sneaked into the files.
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- >It turned out that PRINT.EXE was only equiped to handle non-binary
- >files! (This was confirmed after checking the manuals.) An
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- I didn't see it my manuals either, but many dos level programs intended
- for text files, have a hidden (or poorly documented) /b switch for
- use with binary files. Try print /b file.ext
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- al
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